BadAss Marine
Song pays tribute to service members.
Lyrics (from BadAssMarine.com):
Free
and She called...
Blacks, Whites...wait
African Americans and Caucasians, Asians,
excuse me.
Vietnamese, Philipenes, Koreans and
Jamaicans or
Haitans, waitin' Hispanics y'all.
Please be paitent
Mexican, Puerto Ricans, Venezualean,
Cuban, v Dominican, Panamanian Democrats
I beg your pardon, you partied with
the late, great Reagan?
Republican, Independent, Christian,
Catholic,
Methodist, Baptist, 7th Day Adventist,
5 Percenters,
Hindu, Sunii Muslim, Brothers and Sisters
who never seen the New York city
skyline when the twin towers still existed.
But still She called.
From the bowels of Ground Zero she sent
this 911 distress signal.
Because She was in desperate need of
a hero,
and didn't have time to decipher what
to call 'em,
so she called 'em all Her children.
The children of the stars and bars who
needed to know nothing more than the
fact that she called.
The fact that someone attempted to harm
us
this daughter who covered us all with
her loving arms.
And now these arms are sprawled across
New York City streets.
A smoke filled lung, a silt covered
faced,
and a solitary tear poured out of her
cheek.
Her singed garments carpets Pennsylvania
Avenue and the Pentagon was under her
feet.
As she began to talk, she began to cough
up small particles of debris
and said, "I am America, and I'm calling
on the land of the free."
So they answered.
All personal differences set to the
side
because right now there was no time
to decide which state building the Confederate
flag should fly over,
and which trimester the embryo is considered
alive,
or on our monetary units, and which
God we should confide.
You see, someone attempted to choke
the voice
of the one who gave us the right for
choice,
and now she was callin.
And somebody had to answer.
Who was going to answer?
So they did.
Stern faces and chisled chins.
Devoted women and disciplined men,
who rose from the ashes like a pheonix
and said "don't worry, we'll stand in
your defense."
They tightened up their bootlaces
and said goodbye to loved ones, family
and friends.
They tried to bombard them with the "hold
on", "wait-a-minute's", and "what-if's".
And "Daddy, where you goin?".
And, "Mommy, why you leavin?".
And they merely kissed them on their
foreheads and said "Don't worry, I have
my reasons.
You see, to this country I pledged my
allegience
to defend it against all enemies foreign
and domestic.
So as long as I'm breathin, I'll run
though hell-fire,
meet the enemy on the front lines,
look him directly in his face,
stare directly in his eyes and scream,
"I AM AMERICA! WE WILL NOT BE TERRORIZED!
WE WILL NOT BE TERRORIZED!
I REFUSE TO BE AFRAID!
I'LL FIGHT YOU ANY COUNTRY, ANY CONTINENT,
ANY TERRAIN.
I'LL FIGHT TO MY LAST BREATH!"
And if by chance death is my fate,
pin my medals upon my chest,
and throw Old Glory on my grave.
But, don't y'all cry for me.
You see, my Father's prepared a place.
I'll be a part of his Holy army standing
a watch at the Pearly Gates.
Because freedom was never free.
POW's, and fallen soldiers
all paid the ultimate sacrafice
along side veterans who put themselves
in harms way.
Risking their lives and limbs just to
hold up democracy's weight,
but still standing on them broken appendages
anytime the National Anthem was played.
You see, these were the brave warriors
that gave me the right
to say that I'm Black. Or white.
Or
African American or Caucasian,
I'm Asian, excuse me.
I'm Vietnamese, Philipene, Korean, or
Jamaican.
I'm Haitan, Hispanic
Y'all, Please be paitent.
I'm Mexican, Puerto Rican, Venezualean,
Cuban,
Dominican, Panamanian, Democrat
I beg your pardon, you see I partied
with the late, great Reagan.
I'm Republican, Independent, Christian,
Catholic,
Methodist, Baptist, 7th Day Adventist,
5 Percenters,
Hindu, Sunii Muslim,
Brothers and Sisters We're just Americans.
So with that I say
"Thank You" to the Army, Navy, Air Force,
and Marines,
for preserving my rights
to live and die for this life
and paying the ultimate price for me
to be...FREE!
