Lyrics Hayes Carll

Hayes Carll

Kmag Yoyo

Well, daddy joined the Air Force

Said, it was a good source

Danger, love, and money, but it only led to divorce

Ended up in Abilene

Working at a Dairy Queen

Put me in the Army on the day that I turned seventeen

Here I am standin' in the desert with a gun

Thought of going AWOL but I'm too afraid to run

So I got myself a new plan

Stealin' from the Taliban

Make a little money turning poppies into heroin

Sergeant didn't like it so they put me in a hole

I said "It's easy shootin' when they don't know where to go."

Threw me on a lily pad

Sent me home to NORAD

I knew I'd be in trouble but I didn't think it be this bad

Stranger wearin' all black

Met me on the tarmac

Told him I was sorry but I ain't ever going back

He said, you ain't in trouble son

Learn to fight without a gun

Got a new assignment now, you're working for the Pentagon

Gonna get a trip, wouldn't tell me what it's for

Gotta serve your country, gonna help us win the war

MIT, Ph.D.'s, night and day, they're testing me

Ain't what I was thinking but I'm being all that I can be

I ain't no genius but I knew it wasn't right

Eating uppers in the morning and LSD at night

Send me off to deep space

Help 'em win the arms race

Ola me, oh mighty, but this shit has got a funny taste

I think I hear the countdown

Hundred feet above the ground

Told me when I'm leavin' but a' nothing 'bout 'a coming down

Sitting on a bad dream

Thousand pounds of gasoline

Ain't leavin' nothing but some rubble and my slipstream

Mama always said, I should be aimin' for the moon

Never would've guessed that I'd be passing by soon

How the hell'd I get here?

Blastin' through the atmosphere

Drop the rocket boosters and I'm shiftin' into high gear

Bowie on the system and a bottle on my knee

Armstrong ain't got nothing on me

Hey ho, here we go

KMAG YOYO

Someone wanna get me, gotta come up where the sun don't go

I think I see a bright light

Something 'bout it ain't right

I laid down in a space ship

Woke up in a firefight

Trippin' from the morphine

Came down in a bad scene

God, don't let me die here, I ain't even 19

I won't ever ask you, Lord for anything again

I'll swear it on the Bible, Torah or Koran

Lyin' in a rhino track

'Bout to have a heart attack

IED got to me, someone call the Medevac

I need some fixin' after where it is I've been

Never wanna go and try and shoot a gun again

Slippin' out the back door

Gonna join the Peace Corps

Tell me, I'm a hero now, so

Someone else can fight this war