Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song The Draft Is Coming , by - David Rovics. Release date: 14.08.2006
Song language: English
The Draft Is Coming |
| The draft is coming |
| It’s blowing down the door |
| So pack your bags, boys and girls |
| We’re all going off to war |
| You can be the next to die for Halliburton |
| Pull the cord, drape the flag and draw the curtain |
| You can pull the trigger for the Exxon Corporation |
| Watch the cities burn around you while you’re standing at your station |
| You can shoot the children as they throw stones at your Humvee |
| And you can die for Kerry or maybe for Dick Cheney |
| When your tours are over and you come back |
| Maybe you can go to college if you survive Iraq |
| With DU dust in your lungs you can learn a trade |
| In your dying years you’ll have it made |
| And when you’re coughing up your last breath beneath the overpass |
| You’ll be praying for the fortunes of the military brass |
| But you can be happy about the cause for which you died |
| At least you fought for freedom unlike the other side |
| They were setting off car bombs while you dropped them from the sky |
| You sold the country off to whatever company would buy |
| Shut their papers down and shot them for their liberty |
| So as you die you know you left the world a bit more free |
| Yes you can die for oil and watch history repeat |
| Fight for empire in the desert and go down in defeat |
| Or maybe it could happen that now in the second round |
| We will take the struggle higher and this time hear the sound |
| Of the chimes of freedom ringing when we take Washington, DC |
| 'Cause opportunity is knocking, oh say, can you see |