[Verse 1] Honey, don't tell the boys I been talkin' like this 'Cause I can't have 'em thinkin' I'm scared Truth is I ain't afraid a'nothin' no more I'm tired and I just don't care
How many tours is too many tours My baby she'd like to know 'Cause always there at the back a'my mind Is that Jody's there when I go
[Chorus] Never let 'em send me back to Sadr City Never let 'em send me back Some shit went down, down in Sadr City Some shit went down in Iraq I ain't goin' back
[Verse 2] Well I was there in '04 when it first got hot And Muqtada's local fighters emerged Earned a Purple Heart via Seven-Six-Two And another later during the Surge
Didn't know nothin' back then, didn't care It was get it out and kick us some ass Couldn't tell a Sunni from a Shia from the Kurds But they educated me pretty fast
[Chorus] Never let 'em send me back to Sadr City Never let 'em send me back Some shit went down, down in Sadr City Some shit went down in Iraq I ain't goin' back
[Verse 3/Bridge] Well it was pretty touch n'go from the very first light Fiercest action that I'd ever seen Ambush come and we hadda' dismount Get busy, fight it out in the streets
Well all hell broke loose, takin' fire from the rooftops Haji launchin' RPGs Fightin' runnin' battles with militias in the alleys Draggin' on and on week after week
Takin' hits at fifty metres from a shrine nearby But they wouldn't let us light up a mosque Then our tanks rolled in, real hard real heavy But they couldn't help the guys that we lost
[Chorus] Never let 'em send me back to Sadr City Never let 'em send me back Some shit went down, down in Sadr City Some shit went down in Iraq I ain't goin' back
[Verse 4] Well I don't know if it matters to the folks back home But they say they're all supportin' the troops There's no time anyway to be dwelling on that Out here thinkin's only for fools
And as long as there's no lack of young man willin' To ride to the sound of the guns I'll be waking up dreaming of the Mahdi Army And of both sides losing their sons
[Final Chorus] They ain't a-gonna send me back to Sadr City They ain't a-gonna send me back My orders came through and babe it isn't pretty It's Afghanistan instead of Iraq They're sending me backTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
