Lee Kernaghan、Fred Smith《The Dust Of Uruzgan》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:00.73]The Dust Of Uruzgan - Lee Kernaghan/Fred Smith [00:08.54]In the ring they call me Warlord my mother calls me Paul [00:12.20]You can call me Private Warren when you're filing your report [00:17.06]As to how I came to be here this is what I understand [00:20.77]In this hospital in Germany from the dust of Uruzgan [00:35.38]You'd just turned twenty eight just bought a new car [00:39.31]When you joined the first battalion of the big 1 RAR [00:43.11]We were next up for deployment I south afghanistan [00:47.02]To combat the insurgence in the dust of Uruzgan [00:53.75]It took seven months of training just to get into the joint [00:57.40]There were push ups and procedures [00:59.27]And there was death by powerpoint [01:01.55]Then the RSOI course in Ali Al Salaam [01:05.47]But nothing can prepare you for the dust of Uruzgan [01:09.12]Me and Benny sat together flying into Kandshar [01:12.63]We sucked back on our near beers in the camp baker bar [01:20.99]In twenty flying minutes we were in to tarin kowt [01:24.69]We shook hands as the boys ripped out from MRTF one [01:28.45]And pretty soon were out patrolling in the Afghan summer sun [01:32.52]Walking through the green zones with a styer in my hand [01:36.38]Body armour chafing through the dust of Uruzgan [01:50.65]Well we started up near chora working fourteen hours a day [01:54.74]Mentoring a kandak from the afghan fourth brigade [01:58.62]Down through the baluchi into eastern dorafshan [02:02.62]Working under open skies in the dust of Uruzgan [02:06.13]It's a long long way from [02:07.56]Townsville not like any place you've seen [02:10.26]Suddenly you're walking through from the fourteenth century [02:14.37]Women under burkhas tribal warlords rule a land [02:18.01]Full of goats and huts and jungle trucks in the dust of Uruzgan [02:21.91]And the education minister can neither read nor write [02:25.61]And the minister for women runs a knock shop there at night [02:29.23]They've been fighting there forever over water [02:32.05]Food and land [02:33.76]Murdering each other in the dust of Uruzgan [02:40.28]There's nothing about this province [02:41.88]That's remotely fair or just [02:44.01]But worse than the corruption is the endless bloody dust [02:48.20]It's as fine as talcum powder on the ground and in the air [02:51.38]And it gets into your eyes and it gets into your hair [02:55.60]And it gets in to your weapon and it gets in to your boots [02:59.47]When bureaucrats all show up here it gets in to their suits [03:03.39]And it gets in the machinery and it foils every plan [03:07.27]There's something quite symbolic bout the dust of Uruzgan [03:14.09]Still the people can be gracious and their courteous and smart [03:17.88]And when the children look into your eyes they walk into your heart [03:21.49]Face each day with courage and each year without a plan [03:25.49]Beyond scratching for survival in the dust of Uruzgan [03:32.75]But the taliban are restless keep the people terrorized [03:36.44]With roadside bombs and hangings and leaving letters in the night [03:39.96]And they have no useful vision for the children of this land [03:44.02]But to keep them praying on their knees in the dust of Uruzgan [04:10.31]It was a quite Saturday morning when the two shop made a call [04:13.95]On a compound of interest to the east of COP Mashal [04:17.95]We had some information they were building IED's [04:21.86]So we condoned and we searched it in accord with SOP's [04:25.74]I was on the west flank picket propped there with ben [04:29.38]There to keep a watchful eye out while the other blokes went in [04:33.65]We knew the signs of danger from the TTP's we'd learned [04:37.28]But the nationals were moving back and forth without concern [04:41.06]We'd been static there for hours when I shifted slightly back [04:44.82]My foot tripped a AP mine and everything went black [04:49.14]I woke up on a gurney flat out on my back [04:52.61]Had to ask them seven times just to get the facts [04:56.65]That I lived to tell the story through a simple twist of fate [05:00.39]The main change lay ten foot away from the pressure plate [05:04.28]You see the mine was linked [05:05.42]By det cord to a bid charge laid by hand [05:08.35]Hidden under benny by the dust of Uruzgan [05:14.65]I was a queensland champ Thai Boxer now I look south on my knee [05:18.89]And all I see is bed sheets where my foot use to be [05:23.08]Benny's dead and buried underneath Australian sand [05:26.60]But his spirit's out there wandering [05:28.44]Through the dust  the dust of Uruzgan [06:10.06]Now I'm going back to Townsville it's the city of my birth [06:13.92]Well some go back to ballarat and some go back to perth [06:17.78]I'll be living with my mother who's still trying to understand [06:21.27]Why we're spending blood and treasure in the dust  in the dust of Uruzgan