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Lost in deep cover"Dear John," said his lover's last letterEmptied a full clip to feel betterSlipped a rung on Jacob's ladderDesert boot camp deserter got stung by death adderDon't get mad get even madderA10 tank killer fodderInterrogate? Why bother...My brother for a last cigarette, no please not yetOne last dance, lest we regretLook me in the eye, GI, and tell me you're not tiredI'm tired to death sir, I'm tired till it hurtsBut when you thought it couldn't get much worseWell it may...We march at the break of dayAnd come what may, rules of engagement sayWe will stand to the very last, shrapnel blastA casket goes home...Sons and daughters wrapped in stars and stripes to keep 'em warm("Give peace a chance... that doesn't mean anything""It's like give peace a chance")Under red orange dawn we draw the lineAnd those on the other side must stand and fightTracers like fourth of July in the nightLetras de cancionesLighting up like HiroshimaThe perfect sight[Chorus: repeat 2X]I'm a Starship TrooperThis is my letter to dad, transferred from Saigon to BaghdadAnd now I'm deadAn allied soldier, with skin boils from EbolaI'll bring you back a souvenir of what we stoleI was only nineteenJoined for the pay packetNow my full metal jacket won't take one more hitI don't give two xxxxx about oil interestsBut depleted uranium, just gave Joe a fitCaptain Kurtz said, "fight till the hurt stops"Yet all I can see is burned cropsAnd mates shell-shockedMorphine under lock and keyTheir AK's talking to my M16Pray for friendly fireHaven't seen a priest, but plenty of funeral pyresTriage nurse is dyingMy name in the paperNext to a faceless dictatorAnd another flag to drapeHey yo, checkHere's the commanding officerA total mess againCrying in the mess tentHow to make mice or mince meat of his men[Chorus: repeat 2X]I'm a Starship TrooperThis is my letter to dadTransferred from Saigon to BaghdadAnd now I'm deadAn allied soldier... From Letras Mania