Watches

A song about the U.S. war in Afghanistan. It should be noted that this by no means a "pro Taliban" song. There are many faces of resistance to the U.S. in Afghanistan, and there are many who fight who are not aligned in anyway with unjust and sectarian groups like the Talian or Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. There is an Afghan proverb "You may have the watches, but we have the time".

Soldier's got the watches

Farmer's got the time

Soldier's got the capital

Farmer's got the countryside

What you got?

You're pretty far from home here

What you got?

You're all alone here

Soldier's got the helicopter

Farmer's got the RPG

Soldier's got the propaganda

Farmer's got the popularity

And the ghosts of Brits, and the ghosts of Russians

They haunt your dreams don't they?

This has happened before

It went the same way