Greg Whalen - Kabul 2021 Lyrics

Three years from the day it came crumbling down
The poor souls we left high and dry
There was blood, there were cries, and terrified eyes
As the children they learned how to hate and to die

The bastards they said no worries my friend
Cause the mission is just about done
So why in the hell have I found myself here
Pointing at women and kids with my gun

Can't you see whats been going on, what cowards are running the show
How is it right to be promising life when we intend to up and go home
Don't worry America sleep tight at night
Cause you can keep sending your kids to go fight
And to get blown to hell as they clean up your mess
So you can just look at your watch and forget

A man and his wife with their kids by their side
Begging me to shoot them instead
Better to die by American fire
Than be left to the Taliban

What's the point of an oath of you think it's a joke
A promise you don't have to keep
There's a price to be paid and we won't let it fade
Till the hill has been cleared of its weeds

Can't you see whats been going on, what cowards are running the show
How is it right to be promising life when we intend to up and go home
Don't worry America sleep tight at night
Cause you can keep sending your kids to go fight
And to get blown to hell as they clean up your mess
So you can just look at your watch and forget
How the women with child were crushed in the crowd
The infants we gathered were screaming so loud
As the desperate and broken were falling from planes
The crowds kept like cattle, eyes hardened with pain
As a suicide bomber turned water and mud
To a mixture of sewage and bodies and blood

One by one the caskets rolled, the 13 going home
To their families they could not see so they wouldn't be buried alone

Don't worry America sleep tight at night
Cause you can keep sending your kids to go fight
And to get blown to hell as they clean up your mess
So you can just look at your watch and forget