| Lyrics: | (Danoff)
Just out of the infantry this morning, I had to pay my dues across the sea.
No one
back in boot camp ever warned me
what the readjustment blues would do to me.
"Welcome to
Havannah", said the pilot.
"We must have made a wrong turn on the way.
Let's buy some cigars
and keep it quiet,
if they don't know we're here we'll get away."
Just as I had
realized he was joking, I saw we were in Washington D.C.
'Cause there was all the patriotic
buildings, just like I had seen them on TV.
It must have been a holiday, 'cause there was this
parade.
People carried signs, I couldn't read, that they had made
'Till I got closer and my
heart fell to my socks,
there was a battle raging and the air was filled with teargas and
rocks.
There was the flag I'd fought against so often,
the one I fought for hanging upside
down.
The wind was blowing hard, the dirt was flying,
it made the city sky look dark and
brown.
I saw a girl, she could have been my sister,
except her hair was long and in her
face.
She explained this was a demonstration against the war and for the human race.
Now,
I've seen a lot of strange things in my travels. Cannibals, yes, and aliens galore.
But I never
thought I'd see so many people saying we don't want your war!
The troops all had on uniforms
just like the one I'd worn,
but they were all domestic and my duty chose war.
They carried
guns just like the ones across the sea,
except this time, I was the citizen, and they were
pointing their guns at me.
Yes, I was just a citizen, and I was walking down the street,
And
it was just that night, the readjustment blues got through to me. |
