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IHateGovernment
07-31-2006, 11:01 AM
In the best song ever thread in an attempt to scour my mind for some particularly powerful songs amongst genres not mentioned I remember the song Casualties of War by Rakim.

This song captures the experience of a soldier and the confusion of war. While the song was written 1992 and is about the Gulf war it seems to more accurately describe the experience of the Iraq war soldier.

What makes this song specifically stick out though is the eerily prophetic verses such as the following

The war is over, for now at least

Just because they lost it don't mean it's peace

It's a long way home, it's a lot to think about

Whole generation, left in doubt

Innocent families killed in the midst

It'll be more dead people after this

So I'm glad to be alive and walkin

Half of my platoon came home in coffins

Except the general, buried in the Storm

in bits and pieces no need to look for em

I played it slick and got away with it

Rigged it up so they would think they did it

Now I'm home on reserves

and you can bet when THEY call,

I'm going AWOL

Cause it ain't no way I'm going back to war

when I don't know who or what I'm fighting for

So I wait for terrorists to attack

Every time a truck backfires I fire back

I look for shelter when a plane is over me

Remember Pearl Harbor? New York could be over,

G Kamikaze, strapped with bombs

No peace in the East, they want revenge for Saddam