[verse 1]

There's trouble brewing in the Middle East

Seems like for thousands of years

People down there living in a blood feast

So we send in Marines with peaceful guns

Pulling in, pulling out

Trying very hard to pull the wool over our eyes

Mr Soviet man treading on water

Run into Afghanistan

And you bring them all down to their knees

Then spreading hatred, spreading disease

Tell me where in this world

Can a man just do as he please

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And that ain't no way to be

That ain't no way to be

And that ain't no way to be

That ain't no way to be

It's never no way to be

[verse 2]

There's a macho man who drives a Trans Am

Looking good he knows he'll get away with

Just about anything that he can

He spots a dog crossing the road

Speeds up and feels the impact

As he shoots his load

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[verse 3]

I know a man who worked every day of his life

Comes home in the evening

Thinks he has a deal with his wife

And the kids are pulling his hair out everyday

Then he looks at the television

And reads about all of the people blowing one other away

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