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Back home Indiana we just learn to get along |
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Civilized and socialized they teach you right from wrong |
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How to hold your liquor and how to hold your tongue |
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How to hold a woman or a baby or a gun |
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But nothing will prepare you for the far Afghanistan |
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You can listen to their stories and pick up what you can |
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You listen to their stories maybe read a book or two |
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Until they send you out there man you haven't got a clue |
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Oh the Hindu Kush the Band-e Amir the Hazara |
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They tell you a tradition in the hills of Kandahar |
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They say young boys are taken to the wilderness out there |
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Taken to the mountain alone and in the night |
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If he makes it home alive they teach him how to fight |
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They fought against the Russians they fought against the Brits |
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They fought old Alexander talking 'bout him ever since |
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And after ９/１１ here comes your Uncle Sam |
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Another painful lesson in the far Afghanistan |
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I was ready to be terrified and ready to be mad |
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I was ready to be homesick the worst I've ever had |
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I expected to be hated and insulted to my face |
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But nothing could prepare me for the beauty of the place |
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No matter what they tell you all soldiers talk to God |
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It's a private conversation written in your blood |
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The enemy's no different badass holy wind |
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That crazy bastard talks to God and his God talks back to him |
