Poverty Draft

from Circle Round The Signs by Al Scorch

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lyrics

Black country girl Mississippi
White boy big city hillbilly
Doesn’t matter your race just your class
Send you to college and on top you get paid
The fight for freedom pays more than minimum wage

But if you don’t make it through as one of the proud and the few
Who don’t come back battered and tattered or shattered sick or insane
The trauma deniers and tuition check signers can say all that we did was ask
And that’s the hell of the poverty draft

They say it’s just like a video game.
They’ll disassociate you, frame by frame
When comes the real pain
you just might break

You took the job for the money
Took the shrapnel for your country
Took lives so that others might live
Brother that we forgive
Live or die that was it

But when you close your eyes
Fire lights up the skies
And the screams and the cries are some hellish refrains
Dark demons still haunt you
Uncle Sam he still wants you to get on the big airplane again
And back home to a war without end

He says young woman look how you’ve changed
An army of one strong with a warrior’s brain
Your friends and family seem strange
You have no first name and the cycle of sickness remains

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from Circle Round The Signs, released May 13, 2016

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