Do You Call This Freedom

AINT MY COUNTRY

Verse 1 pt-a
Gunshot police man's dead
took a bullet to his fuckin head
His brains went out the window
with all that Bullshit pride.

Verse 1 pt-b
Mom is crying cuz her boys are at war
Daddy's drinking he's a veteran for sure
Terrorist era we're committing suicide
Jaded by wealth while the country dies

pre-chorus
Hey hey this aint my country
Hey hey this ain't my country

Chorus
So I'll smoke a cigarette while I watch it burn
and I'll laugh so god damn hard it hurts
Smoke a cigarette while it burns
I'll laugh so god damn hard it hurts

Verse 2 pt-a
You blindly follow that flag
that flag of Bullshit freedom
you'd gladly die for this country
For a country that don't care for you

Verse 2 pt-b
Mom is crying cuz her boys are at war
Daddy's drinking he's a veteran for sure
Terrorist era we're committing suicide
Jaded by wealth while the country dies

pre-chorus
Hey hey this aint my country
Hey hey this ain't my country

Chorus
So I'll smoke a cigarette while I watch it burn
and I'll laugh so god damn hard it hurts
Smoke a cigarette while it burns
and I'll laugh so god damn hard it hurts

pre-chorus
Hey hey this aint my country
Hey hey this ain't my country

Chorus
So I'll smoke a cigarette while I watch it burn
and I'll laugh so god damn hard it hurts
Smoke a cigarette while it burns
I'll laugh so god damn hard it hurts
I'll laugh so god damn hard it hurts


Summary/Notes

Verse 1 part a is about a veteran named jackie, i dont recall his last
name. He was buddies with a friend of mine named Damon Lyden. They
were both infantrymen. The story goes Jackie came back from deployment
after involuntarily being recalled and found out his girlfriend had
been fucking a ton of people. She dumped him and he lost his mind. He
first killed a police officer then his girlfriend who i dont know the
name of then committed suicide outside of her house in his car. His
brains went out the window is jackies brains and the last line
(bullshit pride) is my take on the realization of pride not being so
important after all this.

Verse 1 pt b and verse 2 pt b I wrote on the plane going back to mosul
after mid tour was over. It was holiday season and I was struck by the
moment at the airport while waiting with my mother to board the plane.
She was crying quite intensely and made a comment about losing her
husband to a drunk driver and now both of her sons were
deployed.(Chris was deployed at this time as well) As I sat their
waiting I noticed how many people were wearing very expensive clothes
and having the times of their lives blissfully ignorant of the fact
that my mother, who is one of countless mothers dealing with the same
thing, was coping with so much. She is an american hero for bearing
that kind of stress.

Verse 2 pt a was written in 1999 which was my senior year in high
school. The subject of the verse is recruitment in high schools. I
personally believe that children are targeted cuz their easily excited
by half truths. Everyday a navy recruiter would be in the lunch room
at school and eventually my friend Jim Sitzman enlisted at 18 I
personally believe he was convinced to do so because his girlfriend
had become pregnant. I was told later on he was killed in Iraq in
2004. As well, I put this verse in as a tribute to my twin bro cuz he
loved it and he's been on my mind alot lately do to his deployment and
upcoming return home.

Pre-Chorus is simply a rejection of everything I've seen and heard as
it relates to how veterans are treated as accessories in this country
or largely ignored.

Chorus, Is a picture thats always been in my head about what things
would look like and what I would be doing if all this changed or was
made right somehow. Its a wish that will never come true which is why
I try to make it sound hopeless in the song.


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