Deserts Of Blood (What's Done Is Done) (rap song)

Deserts Of Blood (What's Done Is Done) By Jesse Scobie

Chords: Eb DM7 F Dm7 Ab
Sometimes people say that when mistakes are made
There's still second chances to change your ways
But what if that mistake was forced on you day to day
Year to year for so long, no remorse or tears could bring back the memories of
yesterday...

Chords: Am Dm Ab F Ab
I was shipped off in '04, taken from America to the Kuwait shores
Went through three months of combat training, think they should of gave me more but I'm not complaining. At least I've got a purpose, I'm not washing floors at McDonald's like before so let me work it. But this war is already turning into a dead horse dropped on your bed at quarter to 4. I've never held a gun before so for so long I was never quite sure how I would get through to to the end of this shit, I could be doing this all for nothing if I got hit. I see children with torn limbs begging at my feet, you live in a house in the wrong area you're dead meat. Spread democracy everywhere in the middle east? Fuck no it's a hypocrisy with dead bodies filling the streets. I don't understand I guess I never felt what it was like to be human till I pointed a gun at a pregnant wife and daughter in the face of all this ruin. It takes someone with a sick mind and sick plan to manipulate us into staying here and in Afghanistan, so many times I should of just got up and ran far away from this sand. But I didn't I stayed loyal to my brothers, some of them grew up in poverty with single mothers. Never had a choice to go to college, so they had to join the army to get more knowledge. I saw one brother get shot in the head by a sniper in a tree now this father to be is dead and the cycle continues with the same old news, nothing new to be read.

Chorus: Cm Bb Eb Fm

When will we stand up and stop this endless hate
Power cannot still corrupt, this is not the world's fate
If it were your child you lost, would it change what you say
How many more lives will it cost till we all just fade away

Yeah fade away that's what happens to some of these families everyday
In this holy land set ablaze in a decaying courtyard maze. this is the cradle of life mesopotamia but now it's so fucking messed up, who's to blame but ya, those in Washington and the media who sucked up your lies like vampires in Transylvania. Yeah you know I'm talking to you little military officials hidden behind closed rooms trying desperately to secure the poor's doom wipe out those with oil like a monsoon. Yeah it doesn't take a fucking genius to figure that one out, without a doubt this shit was personal for our President from the south, hot shot rich hick with the big mouth. Texas oil spoiled son who claims he dad would of been done if Saddam had his way and that's reason we're here fighting today, well right now it doesn't matter anyway I'm sitting in Baghdad about to leave back home finally. It's been almost three years and I've witnessed way too many tragedies and seen way too many tears. Now at last I'm back at home with my daughter on my lap talking to my parents on the phone, my wife is worried about my health and safety though I tell it's ok, I know deep down no one can save me. If there's one thing I learned from my experiences over there, it's that we can never allow ourselves ever again to just sit and stare and watch our beautiful country just blow this earth into the air and if you truly cared about peace you know love will get you there.

When will we stand up and stop this endless hate
Power cannot still corrupt, this is not the world's fate
If it were your child you lost, would it change what you say
How many more lives will it cost till we all just fade away


This song is in dedication and memory to all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice
in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, God knows what you've done and though the purpose
of these conflicts may be in vain your courage and bravery was not.

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