Casualties of war; as I approach the barricade
 Where's the enemy? Who do I invade?
 Bullets of Teflon  bulletproof vest rip
 Tear ya outta ya frame with a bag full of clips
 Cause I got a family that waits for my return
 To get back home is my main concern
 I'ma get back to New York in one piece
 but I'm bent in the sand that is hot as the city streets
 Sky lights up like fireworks blind me
 Bullets, whistlin over my head remind me...
 President Bush said attack
 Flashback to Nam, I might not make it back
 Missile hits the area, screams wake me up
 from a war of dreams, heat up the M-16
 Basic training, trained for torture
 Take no prisoners, and I just caught ya
 Addicted to murder, send more bodybags
 They can't identify em, leave the nametags
 I get a rush when I see blood, dead bodies on the floor
 CASUALTIES OF WAR! (4X)

 Day divides the night and night divides the day
 It's all hard work and no play
 More than combat, it's far beyond that
 Cause I got a kill or be killed kind of attack
 Area's mapped out, there'll be no, Stratego
 Me and my platoon make a boom wherever we go
 But what are we here for? Who's on the other side of the wall?
 Somebody give the President a call
 But I hear warfare scream through the air
 Back to the battlegrounds, it's war they declare
 A Desert Storm: let's see who reigns supreme
 Something like Monopoly: a government scheme
 Go to the Army, be all you can be
 Another dead soldier? Hell no, not me
 So I start letting off ammunition in every direction
 Allah is my only protection
 But wait a minute, Saddam Hussein prays the same
 and this is Asia, from where I came
 I'm on the wrong side, so change the target
 Shooting at the general; and where's the sergeant?
 Blame it on John Hardy Hawkins for bringing me to America
 Now it's mass hysteria
 I get a rush when I see blood, dead bodies on the floor
 CASUALTIES OF WAR! (4X)

 The war is over, for now at least
 Just because they lost it don't mean it's peace
 It's a long way home, it's a lot to think about
 Whole generation, left in doubt
 Innocent families killed in the midst
 It'll be more dead people after this
 So I'm glad to be alive and walkin
 Half of my platoon came home in coffins
 Except the general, buried in the Storm
 in bits and pieces no need to look for em
 I played it slick and got away with it
 Rigged it up so they would think they did it
 Now I'm home on reserves and you can bet
 when THEY call, I'm going AWOL
 Cause it ain't no way I'm going back to war
 when I don't know who or what I'm fighting for
 So I wait for terrorists to attack
 Every time a truck backfires I fire back
 I look for shelter when a plane is over me
 Remember Pearl Harbor? New York could be over, G
 Kamikaze, strapped with bombs
 No peace in the East, they want revenge for Saddam
 Did I hear gunshots, or thunder?
 No time to wonder, somebody's going under
 Put on my fatigues and my camoflouge
 Take control, cause I'm in charge
 When I snapped out of it, it was blood, dead bodies on the floor
 CASUALTIES OF WAR! (4X