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Verse 1
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Bill Withers wrote this song
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in 1973
Back then it was about the Vietnam war
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which my father went to
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And I understood it from the
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Perspective of a kid who went to
Desert Storm
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And now it's 2018 and there's
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some young man in
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Some war somewhere and
he'll understand it his way
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But that's just what it is,
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I mean one thing I really like about
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This song is it's not really political
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It's really about the conditions
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of the people that go
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It reasons that we go
It's not political at all,
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It has more to do with our media
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circumstances like for me
I joined 'cause my
daddy joined and
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My daddy joined 'cause
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he needed a job
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So like he said when they say
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Half the time you go in to some country
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Which is exciting until you realize
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Wow this was really death, you know
And I'm sure it's the same way
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for the guy on the side but...
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Once you're in that situation
you're
Wearing that uniform and he's
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wearing that uniform
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And whether you're political or
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Not, you are in this situation right
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now
And it doesn't matter what you political
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leanings are at that time
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And that's what I really love about
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This song 'cause it speaks
to the humanity
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of humans on either side
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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left handed
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Would you please write a letter,
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write a letter to my mother
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Tell her to tell, tell her to tell,
Tell her to tell,
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tell my family lawyer
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Try to get, try to get a deferment for
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Verse 3
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Tell the Reverend Harris
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to pray for me
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I ain't gonna live, I don't believe I'm gonna
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live to get much older
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Strange little man over here in Vietnam,
I ain't never seen
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Bless his heart I ain't never done
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Nothin' to, he done shot me in my
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shoulder
Interlude 3
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Verse 4
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Boot camp we had classes
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You know we talked about fightin',
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about fightin' everyday
And lookin' through rosy,
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ookin' through rosy colored glasses
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I must admit it seemed excit ing,
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exciting anyway
But something,
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something that overlooked to tell me
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Bullets look much bet ter I
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must say
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Rather when they,
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they com in' at you
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Then go, go without the
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Verse 5
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So please call up,
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call up, call up the Reverend Harris
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And tell him to ask the lord to do
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some good thing s for me
Tell him, I ain't gonna live,
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I ain't gonnasp live,
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I ain't gonna live to get much older
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Strange little man over here in
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Vietnam, I ain't never seen, bless his heart
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I ain't never done nothing to,
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he done shot me in my shoulder
Outro 1
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