Still In Saigon Lyrics
I walked into a different world, the past forever gone.
I could have gone to Canada or I could have stayed in school.
But I was brought up differently. I couldn't break the rules.
One minute I kneel down and pray And the next I stand and curse.
No place to run to where I did not feel that war.
When I got home I stayed alone and checked behind each door.
I am Still in Saigon in my mind!
My younger brother calls me a killer and My daddy calls me a vet.
Everybody says that I'm someone else That I'm sick and there's no cure.
Da---d if I know who I am. There was only one place I was sure...
Still in Saigon...Still in Saigon.
I am Still in Saigon...in my mind!
I can't tell no one I feel ashamed. Afraid someday I'll go insane.
But now and then I catch myself...Eyes searchin through the sky.
All the sounds of long ago will be forever in my head.
Mingled with the wounded's cries and the silence of the dead...
C ause I'm
I am still in Saigon....in my mind!






This was a big thing for a lot of the troops returning home, their own generation was shouting at them "killer" and the war they had come back from was still going on, it was tough...
This is very similar to the story line in Rambo I am i right?

This is the only tune I've ever heard about PTSD besides Rooster by Alice In Chains. Vietnam was hell that we've should've never been in but it happened and you went whether you liked it or not. Johnson and JFK and Nixon believed in two-view system much like Bush used with the War on Terror. If you aren't with us, then you're against us. History repeats itself and it always repeats itself, doesn't it?
There was also a song in the 80's called "19" that deals with the aftereffects of Vietnam on the vets. I don't know who did the song, but it's pretty cool, and still pretty topical, since there's so many problems with PTSD among the Gulf War/Afghanistan/Iraq vets.
There was also a song in the 80's called "19" that deals with the aftereffects of Vietnam on the vets. I don't know who did the song, but it's pretty cool, and still pretty topical, since there's so many problems with PTSD among the Gulf War/Afghanistan/Iraq vets.
It was by Paul Hardcastle, and it was written in 1985.
It was by Paul Hardcastle, and it was written in 1985.