(D.ValentS)
Well I got a couple
Songs I wrote
In the Air Force
You got anything
That's Air Force
No
Well I do
The Apple
Hip Hop's last frontier
Been a traitor
Since I heard Paul Revere
Moms made me
Rap City raised me
Strong foundation
Thought nothing could phase me
Sent me away
Uncle Sam tried to change me
De-program and mentally
Rearrange me
Like a space monkey
With a shaved head
That's when I thought
The old me was dead
Comatose Basic Training
Slowly draining
Who I was a shell is remaining
Counter propaganda
To dissuade my beliefs
Scare tactics and high level briefs
Sponsored by the Fed
Served the great nation
Active duty like incarceration
Rehabilitate it's by class
They separate caught up in the system
Cuz I took the bait
Ma I love you
But the soldier is gone
I've became someone else
I been gone so long
Now I'm cut from a cloth
The all American is jaded
The red
The white
The blue
Forever faded
Ma I love you
But the soldier is gone
I've became someone else
I been gone so long
Now I'm cut from a cloth
The all American is jaded
The red
The white
The blue
Forever faded
Mr Mojo Rise
Dakar Franchise
Broke it all down
When I was disenfranchised
Took me back to the essence
When we met overseas
This temporary duty
Meant permanent degrees
As a peace offering
To the god mc's
For a culture divine
And the bourgeoisie
Walks with the bird
Holy man of the Third
Helped me translate
What my mind never heard
Like Cochise he preached I resist
And taught me never fall
So I stands with fist
Burnin weed like incense
My in doctrine was intense
Militant mentality now on a leave of absence
Slave dreams of home
Kept the mental roaming
So though in Rome
I never thought as a Roman
I will never inform
I will never conform
I'll be gutter for life
I will never reform
Ma I love you
But the soldier is gone
I've became someone else
I been gone so long
Now I'm cut from a cloth
The all American is jaded
The red
The white
The blue
Forever faded
Ma I love you
But the soldier is gone
I've became someone else
I been gone so long
Now I'm cut from a cloth
The all American is jaded
The red
The white
The blue
Forever faded
Translates to
The man the soldiers are looking for
No longer exists
Now there is only a Sioux
Named Dances with Wolves
3 years later
Finished up the bid
Came home a man
Left as a kid
General Population
Civilian transition
Call me the ghost
Now I'm like an apparition
My spirit is adrift
So who do you see
The military facelift
So I only see me
Even in fatigues
The soldier is gone
Lived many lives
But now I live one
I'm a slang talker
Rhymin in secret codes
Speaking to the generals
In ancient Navajo
Last of the Mohicans
Chief Rocka of the heathens
At this altitude it's amazing
I'm still breathing
Live fly or die
So I'm choose to stay high
On a vision quest
With the eyes of eagle
Thanks to a native
My steelo still regal
Ma I love you
But the soldier is gone
I've became someone else
I been gone so long
Now I'm cut from a cloth
The all American is jaded
The red
The white
The blue
Forever faded
Ma I love you
But the soldier is gone
I've became someone else
I been gone so long
Now I'm cut from a cloth
The all American is jaded
The red
The white
The blue
Forever faded
(Taps playing...)
