Hayes Carll - Kmag Yoyo lyrics

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*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 take 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

Sittin’ 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

passin’ 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 fire-fight

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.*

Thanks to ouroboris for correcting these lyrics