Right shoulder, huh, left shoulder, huh What the hell? Sometimes a man reaches a place in his life where he knows what he gotta do But in his heart he can't justify why And I'm mad AOC-130 rollin' down the strip Young infantry soldier on a one-way trip One hand clutchin' the M-16 The other hand holdin' the picture of his newborn daughter He's never seen, now he's headed overseas Unwilling to see exotic places and meet exotic people and kill em Chasin' ghosts and imaginary villains With a hidden adversary poppin' out at every building They puttin' guns in the hands of little children But he's fightin' for freedom, he's fightin' for reasons He don't even understand it while standin' at ease He knows that if he leaves then he's committin' treason So he puts himself at harm's way everyday For that couple extra dollars of hazardous duty pay They sent him overseas to fight for their democracy But all he thinks about is that dollar he never got to see And all he wanted was money for college Now he's fightin' wars for a government hungry for dollars So when that bullet hit his chest and he was cryin' in pain Hopin' his little girl's daddy ain't dyin' in pain And I don't wanna go at all I know I gotta go for y'all Just give me a reason, I ain't sayin' I'm afraid at all I just wanna know why we leavin' My ship is leavin' And I don't wanna go at all I know I gotta go for y'all Just give me a reason, I ain't sayin' I'm afraid at all I just wanna know why we leavin' My plane is leavin' She used to watch G.I. Joe before Magnum P.I. came From the time that she was knee-high, she wanted to be G.I. Jane Señorita, bonita, put the heat up Taught to fight for a cause like a beater To get a piece of Mamacita, lended a helping hand to Uncle Sam And now he's got a lion in a bunker under sand Underhandedly fightin' panicky with a gun in hand She's halfway around the world from her mother And it's so hard to understand why she left her motherland To fight for a country that didn't respect her But expected to die in its walls in order to accept her The fruits of her labor had a sour nectar Though she was against killin' the villain And now her never had help to let her gun roll Without a second thought, had the thought of her mother Gettin' a knock at the front door With every season turned There is a reason to believe in makin' a human bein' burned America thinks she's fightin' for they freedom When in reality she's fightin' to stay breathin', oh my God And I don't wanna go at all But know I gotta go for y'all Just give me a reason, I ain't sayin' I'm afraid at all I just wanna know why we leavin', my ship is leavin' And I don't wanna go at all But know I gotta go for y'all Just give me a reason, I ain't sayin' I'm afraid at all I just wanna know why we leavin', my plane is leavin' We don't wanna go to war no more You burn this place with too much drama Too much people dyin' over the sea Why can't we all embrace each other? I gotta know, I gotta know I love my only friend