Kmag Yoyo Lyrics - Kmag Yoyo (& Other American Stories) - Hayes Carll

Well, daddy joined the air force 

Said it was a good source 

Danger, love and money 

But it only lead to divorce 

Send it up in Abilene 

Workin' at a Dairy Queen 

Put me in the Army 

On the day that I turned 17 

Here I am standing 

In the desert with a gun 

Thought of goin' AWOL 

But I'm too afraid to run 

So I got myself a new plan 

Stealing from the Taliban 

Make a little money 

Turnin' poppies into heroine 

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 

Knew I'd be in trouble 

But I didn't think it'd be this bad 

A stranger wearing all black 

Met me on the tarmac 

Told him I was sorry 

But I ain't never going back 

He said you ain't in trouble, son 

Learned to fire without a gun 

Got a new assignment 

Now you working for the Pentagon 

Gonna take a trip 

Wouldn't tell me what it's for 

Gotta to serve your country 

Gonna help us win the war 

MIT, PhD's 

Night and day, they 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 them 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 leaving 

But nothing 'bout coming down 

Sitting on a bad dream 

Thousand pounds of gasoline 

Ain't leaving nothing 

But some rubble in my slipstream 

Mama always said 

I should be aiming for the moon 

Never would have guessed 

That I'd be passing by soon 

How the hell did I get here? 

Blasting through the atmosphere 

Drop my rocket boosters 

And I'm shifting into high gear 

Bowie on my system 

And a bottle on my knee 

Armstrong ain't got nothing on me 

Hey yo, here we go 

Kmag yoyo 

Someone wanna get me 

Got to come up where the sun don't go 

I think I see a bright light 

Something 'bout it ain't right 

Laid down in a spaceship 

Woke up in a fire fight 

Tripping 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 

Swear it on the Bible, 

Torah, Koran 

Lying in a rhino track 

'Bout to have a heart attack 

IED got to me 

Someone call a medi-vac 

I need some fixin' 

Now how long has it been 

Never wanna go and try 

And shoot a gun again 

Slippin' out the back door 

Wanna join the Peace Corps 

Tell me I'm a hero 

Now someone else can fight this war