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Back To The World Lyrics
I got to go back to the world
Back to my girl
Back to my family and kids
Have to go and see my home again
Don't want my life to end
Before my time is due
And the kids are big
Just got the postal package from my wife and kids
It brings me comfort while I'm stuck in this desert mess
But don't get me wrong, perform my mission
Just sounding off on my homesick condition
Got to get out, a short timer, my heart it begs for home
I got to go back to the world
Back to my girl
Back to my family and kids
Have to go and see my home again
Don't want my life to end
Before my time is due
And the kids are big
Seen many a firefight since we deployed out here
Learned how to survive with my friends
Their focus, adrenaline and fear
But the odds haunt me, hope I don't get hit
Be that body with a flag adorned to it
I'm gonna make it, the short timer, hellbent on going home
I got to go back to the world
Back to my girl
Back to my family and kids
Have to go and see my home again
Don't want my life to end
Before my time is due
I'm not a policy maker
Just a sworn-in order taker
Doing my best to stay alive
I'm gonna make it
To Conus real soon
Hope some days still lie ahead for me
I got to go back to the world
Back to my girl
Back to my family and kids
Have to go and see my home again
Don't want my life to end
Before my time is due
And the kids are big
I've gotta go back
Too short to turn back
Gotta go back
Back to the world again
Back to my girl
Back to my family and kids
Have to go and see my home again
Don't want my life to end
Before my time is due
And the kids are big
It brings me comfort while I'm stuck in this desert mess
But don't get me wrong, perform my mission
Just sounding off on my homesick condition
Got to get out, a short timer, my heart it begs for home
Back to my girl
Back to my family and kids
Have to go and see my home again
Don't want my life to end
Before my time is due
And the kids are big
Learned how to survive with my friends
Their focus, adrenaline and fear
But the odds haunt me, hope I don't get hit
Be that body with a flag adorned to it
I'm gonna make it, the short timer, hellbent on going home
Back to my girl
Back to my family and kids
Have to go and see my home again
Don't want my life to end
Before my time is due
Just a sworn-in order taker
Doing my best to stay alive
I'm gonna make it
To Conus real soon
Hope some days still lie ahead for me
Back to my girl
Back to my family and kids
Have to go and see my home again
Don't want my life to end
Before my time is due
And the kids are big
Too short to turn back
Gotta go back
Back to the world again
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Excellent song! Mike McColgan or someone else did some homework, whoever wrote it. Having been in the Army for about 12 years, a lot of things sound like a Joe wrote the song. CONUS=continental US. Short-timer's attitude. Back to the world...all terms you hear in the army. The feeling when you get back from a deployment that your kids got older without you... The Dropkick Murphys had some thoughtful lyrics... this reminds me of the kind of "air raid warden will walk up and down" attention to detail.
Mike did his homework by serving in the army, That is the reason many of his songs are from the heart. Not Pro-War, but Pro-G.I.