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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
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