music main | AT HOME | feel | Not There | We Got to Get Back Home | Patriot WE GOT TO GET BACK HOME - lyrics & commentary This song is written from the perspective of a young soldier stationed in Afghanistan. He joined the service to uphold Canada's honoured peacekeeping tradition and does not want to fight an undeclared, so-called war under US command. He has learned that the Afghan tribes have overcome invaders for thousands of years, including the empires of Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, the Huns, the USSR, and Britain. He realizes that whatever he does, this tribal way of life will outlast the US empire and its attempt to use Afghanistan, like Iraq, as a chess piece to squeeze Iran and control mid-eastern oil. Our young soldier does not want himself—and Canada—to be a target of insurgent anger. He does not want Canada to go down with the failing US military machine. He does not want to fight the battles of other people. He wants to support peace in the world, but wants to help Canada first. Surrounded by Afghan tribes as our own First Nations suffer, he wants to get back home. We Got To Get Back Home We got to get back home Western bones are buried in Kandahar We got to get back home Swallowed by the tribes of Afghanistan We got to get back home Who is this Canadian fighting for? We got to get back home Just a blue-eyed bulls-eye in a bearded bazaar Uncle Sam's engine start to smoke and rattle Our kids are gonna burn if we take his train All the world's people gotta fight their own battles We got to get back home We got to get back home What about the water in Kasechewan? We got to get back home What about the desert of my hometown? We got to get back home And what about the beggars by the City Hall? We got to get back home What about the claims of our First Nations? We got to get back home Uncle Sam's engine start to smoke and rattle Our kids are gonna burn if we take his train All the world's people gotta fight their own battles We got to get back home We got to get back home (Instrumental) Uncle Sam's engine start to smoke and rattle Our kids are gonna burn if we take his train All the world's people gotta fight their own battles We got to get back home We got to get back home We got to get back home (repeat) I don't fight for the stars and the stripes It make no sense to poke a hornet's nest Words and music © 2006 SamTurton/Dogsnest Music (SOCAN) Sam Turton: lead vocal, acoustic guitars Jesse Turton: acoustic upright bass Steve Clark: drums and percussion Norman Liota, Heather MacRae, Monique Vischschraper: group vocals Produced by Sam Turton Recorded June 22-24, 2006 at Sugar Hill Productions, Fergus Engineered by Shane Philips Mixed by Attila Toth and Shane Philips Mastered by Andy Krehm for Silverbirch Productions, Toronto 100% MAPL Download tracks at zunior.com (We Got To Get Back Home: Album #3, track #4)