Tim Barry - South hill

^CWhen my girl got pregnant well I dropped right out of school But there's no work in South Hill so ^Fwhat else could I do? The recruiter's came-a-knocking when this ^Cwhole damn thing began They promised me a college education food and ^G5medi^Ccine ^CThey said I wouldn't spend a dime if I got deployed overseas Plus Baghdad is safer now than old ^FWashington, DC So I signed that dotted line right quick and in a^C blink of an eye I found myself at Fort Benning where I ^G5practiced ^Cforming lines ^CWell Fallujah became my home, my comfort and my dread The marines that came through first man they ^Ftore this place to shreds With the sound of crushing Amtracs and the ^Cwhine of their Humvee's Calling in them A-10 air strikes man I ^G5wish I could have ^Cseen it ^CBut when we got to town I realized we were only legs We do dismounted patrols we do ^Fsearches and do raids We hear the crack of small arms fire and the ^Cblast from IED's We hurry up and wait, suck in ^G5dust and stay low ^Ckey

^G5And I cannot stop this ^Fpounding in my ^Chead ^G5I thought we were doing right but that's not what ^Ffolks back home have ^Csaid ^FSometimes I can't tell ^G5which way is ^Cup or which is ^Fdown But I'm oddly at ease with this ^G5chaos all ar^Found

^CThen one day out on patrol doing time out in the heat We were ordered to a neighborhood to talk to ^Ffolks out on the street To gather information on where some ^Cweapons may be stored Or to see if the Mujahideen had hauled them off out of ^G5Fallujah and to the ^Cnorth ^CWell my platoon got lost and made more then one wrong turn We should have called in our position fast but we ^Fblamed each other first Then we started taking sniper fire - ^Cgod damn them all We couldn't find the shooter no where he had us ^G5pinned down one and ^Call ^CWell friendies they caught up and we took back that god damned street But something wasn't right and I ^Fwas feeling really weak My adrenaline was high and I was scared and ^CI could hardly breathe I heard doc argue with the Sarg that ^G5morphine might kill ^Cme ^CThat's the last thing I remember that and heat and clear blue sky And thinking about my girl back home and my ^Fdaughters little eyes I took that bullet in Fallujah and I'm laid ^Cup in Germany And I'm headed back stateside to the care of ^G5Walter ^CReed

^G5And I cannot feel a ^Fthing below my ^Cwaist ^G5Doc tried to help me ^Fman but it was too ^Clate ^FNow I don't know ^G5who is ^Cright or who is ^Fwrong But I'm fucked up and I ^G5want to go back ^Chome ^G5And I cannot stop this ^Fpounding in my ^Chead ^G5I thought we were doing right but that's not what ^Ffolks back home have ^Csaid ^FSometimes I can't tell ^G5which way is ^Cup or which is ^Fdown But one day I'll stand ^G5firmly on the ^Cground Yes one day I'll stand ^G5firmly on the ^Cground