Standard (EADGBE)

 Straight outta highschool he didn't know what to do

 Wanted to go to college but no money was nothin' new

 Wanted to get away go see the world and do somethin' new

 He got approached in the mall by the army recruit

Told him "If you wanna go to school we got money too,

Sign up at eighteen you be you when you twenty-two"

He joined the army airborne got his

uniform went to bootcamp got some

discipline Iraq is where they shipped him

He's in the mission where bullets flyin' and missin him

Wishin' he was a kid again with his family in Michigan

In the midst of fightin' militiamen, one round took down six of them

He ain't really a killa though, takin' a lotta risks

This is what a poor person do for a scholarship

He turned around and got a face full of hollow-tips

But don't be mad, he died for the flag

Chorus

Citizen Cope]

Now what you've done here, is put yourself

between a bullet and a target

And it won't be long before, you're pullin' yourself away

What you've done here, is put yourself between a bullet and a target

And it won't be long before, you're pullin' yourself away