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Lock And Load (Welcome To Iraq)

from Combat Stress: The Musical by Jesus & The Robot

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Lock And Load (Welcome To Iraq)

you lock and then load as you leave the gate. yeah sure, stay alert, stay alive is great if it kept you and your battles out of them bodybags. the army is always good for a fucking laugh.

because you’re alive then you’re not, look who came home in a box.
blown to shit by an IED, in a lightly armored HUMVEE.
really it’s for the best, consider yourself blessed
you could have survived, been traumatized for life.
you could’ve returned totally lost and confused and burned relationship bridges with a short fuse.
instead you had died, for what you gave your life? oh yeah, for god and country because freedom isn’t free.

you could have enlisted, for reasons just like me. lacking in skills in todays fucked up economy.
so depressed, feeling that you have nothing left to lose an understanding that you have nothing better to do.

so now, i lock and then load before going on the road.
keeping twenty nine in the magazine, can’t risk jamming the m-16.
got my flack vest on tight, kevlar don't fit quite right.
schooled to be a mechanic, a comedy so tragic.
they needed a machine gunner for convoys, your job means squat when you deploy
because now i’m behind the fifty, the glass is half empty
in combat you do horrible things to other human beings.

someone came back home with a bad case of the ptsd’s and a good ole’ brain injury, enlisting was a failed suicide.

welcome home natey, christ, it’s been a long time.

i mean sure your standing here but you’re still over there
and we’re all pretty certain that you’re not the same person.
you returned from the tour, joined iraq veterans against the war
became an atheist, a militant anarchist.

so then you lock and then load, spell checked a suicide note
copied and pasted off word, a status update of worth
logged onto Facebook, trolled a last look
posted suicide latter, boy doesn’t that feel better?
you, you even added several clever hashtags, like so long fuckers and whose got the bodybag?
you slashed up your veins, your screaming in pain.
you’re running around panicked, this is not how you imagined.

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from Combat Stress: The Musical, released August 20, 2015

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Jesus & The Robot Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

We decided collectively to form a super band and to take over the world by making catchy and undeniably beautiful songs about an assortment of things. We figured that it will only be a matter of time before the our music spreads like a deadly wildfire that wipes out much plantation and housing thus causing much ruin. ... more

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