The first thing I did when that plane finally landed was kiss the ground The next thing I did was to go find my friends down at the old hangout Drank some beer and talked a lot about old times But ...

The first thing I did when that plane...The next thing I did was to go find ...ome beer and talked a lot about old times...He said, 'I don't know what it ...I said, 'I just came back from a place where they ha...And everything I stand for...A land where our brot...If I'm not exactly the s...I just came back from a war.'...e very next morning I took a walk through the ne...I thought it's been so long since I've been in a place where everyth...And as I watched 'em, I found myself prayin...'Cause I just came back from a place where they ha...And everything I stand for...A land where our brot...If I'm not same little f...I just came back from a war...I hope you cherish th...And I hope you know that it comes with a price...I just came back from a place where they ha...And everything I stand for...A land where our brot...Chances are I never will be the s...I really don't know a...I just came back from a war...I just came back from a war...I just came back from a war

I believe that you he...When I was sick in bed. ...I suppose that he tol...That I keep locked away in...And now do you come back to bring ...He was just a numberless man in a chair ...Who'd just come back from the war. ...And he gave you a German Shepherd to ...With a collar of leather a...Such as who had a word and who had a rock, ...Now your love is a secret all over the...hat drove the crowd from the stands. ...illed the lights in a lonely Lane ...And now I hear your master si...His body is a golden string ...our body is hanging from. ...His body is a golden string, ...No I can't make out what...Then I think you're playin...For a lady who's been to ...I've lain by this win...tapping his foot to a tune, ...And your thighs are a ruin, you want too ...Let's say you came back some time too soon....I loved your master p...I taught him all that...Like a man who is sure wha...And I sent you to him wit...I could teach him som...And I taught him how you ...I believe that you he...While I was sick in bed, ...I'm sure that he told...I must keep locked aw...And now do you come back to bring

a Jones, working at I-HOP...I've been around and I've noticed that...Bobby, Bobby Dunn came back from the war...d that sometimes he just had to cry...I've been around and I've noticed that...You can just lie there...Or you can get back up...You gotta get back up...I've been around and I've noticed that

weary warriors who just came back from hell...eep your territory, I will stay in mine...Just like a roller coaster...I don't need no sympa...Just some peace of mind...Gotta have a truce so we can sta...To pull it back together...I'm tearing up the bu...The living room's a wreck from all the rows...Oh we both deserve a better life...Don't want to be a Buddhist but I need some peace and...All that I ask is some peace i...A little bit of under...And I know that we can ma...So end this war and live our lives...I'm tearing up the bu

If I came back just a cripple from the war ...d you hold me close just like you did before...If I could not make love... the consequence of war ...estion is just, can I hold you at dusk ...A post-war eunuch ...A lover that is lame ... in the world would I go? ...You're all that I love and all I know ... in the world would I be ...If I lose all of you and

Love success, I'm gettin' money pro...ravellin' for free, from state to state; ...That's how I get my idea to crea...I'm live motivate, I keep on movin, it's...I make Def Jams like ...I stay on my tippy-toes, wreckin' shows, I'm too slow. ...'s the real outlaw, from Flatbush to South S...I just came home from tour. ...I'm comin' through th...I'm fully gassed to t...I'm the baddest man o...Lax, on hot tracks, I can't relax. ...I'm in it to win it, ...Plus I'm wildin' for da ni...My niggas uptown, just throw your hands up...Uh, yo, I'm top billin', makin' a killin', ...Flip a script like Terri M...I can't help the way I'm feelin... ...rothers who dealin' from Brownsville, and ...I'm ready and willing, I'm playin lock and c...Bet I, hesitates, I'm movin' cash like ...ettin' hot, now you back around the way ...All my muthafuckas from across the land, ...Yes, I'm gettin' down in t...War time niggas gettin'

sualties of war; as I approach the barric...s the enemy? Who do I invade? ...outta ya frame with a bag full of clips ...Cause I got a family that waits f...To get back home is my main con...I'ma get back to New York in one ...but I'm bent in the sand ...Flashback to Nam, I might not make it back ...from a war of dreams, heat up ...e no prisoners, and I just caught ya ...I get a rush when I see blood, dead bod...Cause I got a kill or be killed k...and my platoon make a boom wherever we go... give the President a call ...But I hear warfare scream...Back to the battlegrounds, it's war they declare ...A Desert Storm: let's...hing like Monopoly: a government scheme ...So I start letting off a...But wait a minute, Saddam Huss...and this is Asia, from where I came ...I'm on the wrong side...I get a rush when I see blood, dead bod...The war is over, for now at...Just because they lost i...It's a long way home, it's a lot to think about ...So I'm glad to be alive ...Half of my platoon came home in coffins ...I played it slick and...Now I'm home on reserves ...when THEY call, I'm going AWOL ...use it ain't no way I'm going back to war ...when I don't know who or what I'm fighting for ...So I wait for terrorists...Every time a truck backfires I fire back ...I look for shelter when a plane is over me ...Did I hear gunshots, or t...Take control, cause I'm in charge ...When I snapped out of it,

sualties of war; as I approach the barric...s the enemy? who do I invade? ...outta ya frame with a bag full of clips...Cause I got a family that waits f...To get back home is my main con...I'ma get back to new york in one ...But I'm bent in the sand ...Flashback to nam, I might not make it back...From a war of dreams, heat up ...e no prisoners, and I just caught ya...I get a rush when I see blood, dead bod...Cause I got a kill or be killed k...and my platoon make a boom wherever we go... give the president a call...But I hear warfare scream...Back to the battlegrounds, it's war they declare...A desert storm: let's...hing like monopoly: a government scheme...So I start letting off a...But wait a minute, saddam huss...And this is asia, from where I came...I'm on the wrong side...I get a rush when I see blood, dead bod...The war is over, for now at...Just because they lost i...It's a long way home, it's a lot to think about...So I'm glad to be alive ...Half of my platoon came home in coffins...I played it slick and...Now I'm home on reserves ...When they call, I'm going awol...use it ain't no way I'm going back to war...When I don't know who or what I'm fighting for...So I wait for terrorists...Every time a truck backfires I fire back...I look for shelter when a plane is over me...Did I hear gunshots, or t...Take control, cause I'm in charge...When I snapped out of it,

fought the longest war in american history...Vietnam seemed like just another foreign war...In World War II the average age ... I really wasn't sure ...er typically served a twelve month tour o...But, a Veterans Administra...gacy of the Vietnam War ...se who remember the war ... War, War ... wa-wa-War, wa-War, War ... War, War ...After World War II the Men came home together on tr...rence between World War II and Vietnam was ...ne of them received a hero's welcome ...ne of them received a heroes welcome, non...ne of them received a hero's welcome ...ne of them received a hero's welcome ...According to a Veteran's Administ...t veterans suffered from what Psychiatrists ...ighting the Vietnam War ... When we came back it was different..

in it's around the back...Just a half a mile from the railroad track... when my friend and I went up to visit Al...like that, they got a lot of...t their garbage for a long time....A friendly gesture fo...We took the half a ton of garbage, put it in the back of a red VW...there and there was a big sign and a chain across across... had never heard of a dump... find one. Until we came to a side road, and off ...t we did, and drove back to the church, had a thanksgiving...orning, when we got a phone call from officer Obie. He sa...pe at the bottom of a half a ton of...Garbage, and just wanted to know if y...I said, "Yes, sir, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie, I put that envelope...could have given us a medal for...There was a third possibility t...ed. Handcuffed. And I said "Obie, I don't think I...Get in the back of the patrol car."... we did, sat in the back of the patrol car a... the Crime unquote. I want tell you about...And arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explain...the ordeal, we went back to the jail. Obie s...e cell. Said, "Kid, I'm going to put you in the cell, I want your...and your belt." And I said, "Obie, I can understand you ...Wallet so I don't have any mone...want any hangings." I...Obie, did you think I was going to hang m...Toilet seat so I couldn't hit myself...the toilet paper so I couldn't bend the b...emember Alice? It's a song about Alice), Alice came by and with a few...f jail, and we went back...To the church, had a another thanksgivin... in, sat down, Obie came in with the twenty ...cles and arrows and a paragraph on the back... one, sat down. Man came in said, "All rise....ed in sat down with a seeing eye dog, and...And a paragraph on the back of each one, and lo...And arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one and beg...'cause Obie came to the realization that it was a typical case of Ame...cles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each...What I came to tell you about....Came to talk about the d...They got a building down New Y...ected and selected. I went down to get my...Day, and I walked in, I sat down, got good ...I looked and felt my best when I went in that morning. `Cause I wanted to...he all-American kid from New York City, man I wanted, I wanted...feel like the all-, I wanted to be the all American kid from New York,...And I walked in, sat down, I was hung down, brun...ty ugly things. And I waked in and sat do...Me a piece of paper, sai...And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I...Wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and... dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, kill,...Kill, kill." And I started jumpin' up ...l." And the Sargent came over, pinned a medal on me,...he thing there, and I was there for two h...Hours, I was there for a long time going thr...Ugly things and I was just having a tough time there, a...d through, and when I finally came to the see the...Last man, I walked in, walked in sat down after a whole big thing the...And I walked up and said,...And I proceeded to tell h...And I proceeded to tell h...The back of each one, and he stopped me right there and said, "Kid, I want...And I, I walked over to the,..."Kid, whad'ya get?" I said, "I didn't get nothing, I had to pay...And I said, "Littering." And they all moved away from me on the bench... nasty things, till I...Said, "And creating a nuisance." And they all came back, shook my hand...And we had a great time on the b... until the Sargeant came over, had some pape...and-about-the-crime-I-want-to-know-arrest...d nobody understood a word that he said, ...And I filled out the mass...Down there, just like it was, and everything was fine and I put down the...Pencil, and I turned over the pie...he other side, away from everything else on...I went over to the sargent, said, "Sargeant, you got a lot a damn gall to...Ask me if I've rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I'm... here on the bench, I mean I'm sittin here on th...you want to know if I'm moral enough join...illages after bein' a litterbug." He look...e little folder, is a...And the only reason I'm...ay know somebody in a similar...n, or you may be in a similar situation, and if your in a...One person, just one person does it ...Singin a bar of Alice's Rest...magine fifty people a day, I said...Fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Rest...hey may thinks it's a movement.... in it's around the back...Just a half a mile from the railroad track... If you want to end war and stuff you got t...I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it...wenty five minutes. I'm not proud... or t...We're just waitin' for it to c... in it's around the back...Just a half a mile from the railroad track

found a letter from her son ...in a war far away ...said i've been thinkin bou...that's why i'm here today ...you are what i'm fighting for ...letters from war ...what a father that ...a day she'll not forg...it said,i was up on a hill ...i was out there alone...and that's when i saw him ...he came back for me ...a man set me free ...i told him i would ...oh i swore ...last of the letters from war ...d wrote every night just so say ...what a father that you'll ...a car pulled in the d...and out stepped a Captain ...he said mom i'm following orders ...from all of your letters...and i've come home again ... all of her letters from war ... all of her letters from war*

The July wind blew from the mountain ...and threw a chill on the lake s...just before we lost the war ... you knew the words I'd say ...I can't find relief in the lies I told ...but they came right from my core ...I still believe one o...just before we lost the war ...I used to think that ...and time was all I knew ...back to where it stood b...And I couldn't change it in a cold phone booth ...just before we lost the war ...Tell everyone I'm doing fine ...For as far as I can tell ...I'm just ten years down the ...e give we can't get back ...just before we lost the war

Well I'm that ill shitty k...I'm one motherfucking...hat!) Step the fuck back then relax ...Rough is on a full scale attack b...Huh, I'm packing a full metal jacket ...A bat, 21 guns and a hatchet ...Cause I'm crazy, maybe it's...Got the shit I can't hide, some ca...side and that's how I get heated ...When I see the likes of you that's the only time I need it ...ember last meeting, I left my knuckles bl...ms are bloody cause I'm counting blood mo...That I rob from your man in the lan...do me none son when I smoke my Meth ...I feel no pain, no de...t's the place where I roam ...If I live by the sword then I die by the sword ...I'll die by the sword I swear to the fuckin...Cause I'm taking niggas out...y tongue that's how I get the job done ...I still grab my gun cause I'm a fucking rugged one ...We came to rock (What) ...We came to rip (What) ...in't that some shit I gotta rip him apart... hit floors soon as I declare war ...a, better run quick from a click ...That's sick with a bunch of lunatics ...For those who slept I want your rep want ...To find a whole ground that c...how you like me now I get down for my cro...With a fat sound that shakes from the underground ...Bringing ruckus to a nigga, quick to pul...I don't fake none ...When I pull out I'm down to take one'...I'm trife so watch wh...Just came from up north catching f...I planned on chilling when I got home ...But now it's like I'm all alone cause e...So I parlay on the forci...here you'll find me just like back in 1990 ...But Joe, everywhere I go is like June how...Sorry I couldn't come to se...cared you wouldn'ta came to see a nigga quit ...is bond, that's how I kicked it ...I had to learn the ha...So niggas watch a back, here I come, here I come ...It was a cold day in hell wh...body cheered "There a party over here!" ...on, but really need I mention ...y mind was set upon a most highest intent...at's the reason why I came ...I already told ya once I'm too fucking nice ...So I'll tell you again, ...From the root of David t...ou and your friends just get on down ...I ain't talking about...your head kid do as I said ...And if I get bagged I'ma do the life sent...So I'm out on a lam, don't tell 'em where I am ...Even though I got the hearts and ...Just like the Huns and t...Yo I'm the one more soup...Why? Cause I got the gats good a...Writer : A. QUINN, J. WILSON,

worth my birth was a blessing ...nd die on earth as a lesson ...We each have a star all we have t...t and say you have a future ...When you turn your back same cats'll try to...Niggaz ain't shit I can live on both si...That's what I thought, them nigga...Never got paid for a rhyme but I flow (whoo) ...Never got a plate on time but I grow (whoo) ...TAY on the line but I go (UHH) ...Went from doin crime to bein kind cause I know ...I'm gon' live forever, I'm never gon' die ...Only thing I fear is that I'm never gon' fly ...Carry my weight but I'm never gon' cry ...Shit I tell y'all niggaz straight cause I'm never gon' lie ...What is about who I am that makes me un...at it is about what I've done that makes ...I reached out for love and what came back was thirst (WHAT?) ...What'd I just say? "Nigga g'head"...EL ME to catch what I'm sayin, BELIEVE TH...We gon' make a nigga want to be at...ot he's gonna bring back a bone ...This is what I live for, or die fo...I'm the nigga with th...I'm true for cats, ye...Now if I take what he gave m...In other words if I listen and, use the...Then what I say will remain here, after I'm gone ... on the strength of a song, I live on (HMM) ...ond-guessin on what I stood for, I was good for ...stoppin niggaz from killin each other in the hood war (UHH) ...and I gots to be the real...heart but built for war ...I stand for what I believe in ...Even if what I believe in stops me from breathin ...atives grievin, but I ain't went nowhere ...to the song (C'MON) I'm right there

So there we were, back home...From somewhere inside my...Well bravely I fought off the mons...Pillars of post-war books supported my ...ized the pages that I tried to not hide b... the bees knees and I am the cats meow...ow she recalls when I can't remember now...But when her smile came back...And I didn't feel half as...She gave me a heart attack...Just because she looked ...Yeah, but she got a tan and I got a sunburn...I got a sunburn...And swung from the rooftops again...It's awkward but I'll confess she's all I can think about...And it's funny how I recall when she can...But when her smile came back...And I didn't feel half as...She gave me a heart attack...Just because she looked ...Yeah, But she got a tan and I got a sunburn...We'd left a trail of dust behin...I tried not to cry as...But I shed a tear when she disap...'Cause now I'm a stranger on the gro...But when her smile came back...And I didn't feel half as...She gave me a heart attack...But she got a tan and I got a sunburn...She got a tan and I got a sunburn...Yeah, but she got a tan and I got a sunburn