作词 : William S. Burroughs
作曲 : Hal Willner/Michael Franti
From here to eternity.
Mildred Pierce reporting:
I was there. I saw it.
I saw women thrown down on Fifth Avenue And raped in their mink coats
By blacks and whites and yellows
While street urchins stripped
The rings from their fingers.
A young officer stood nearby.
"Aren't you going to do something?" I demanded.
He looked at me and yawned.
I found Colonel Bradshaw bivouacking in the Ritz.
I told him bluntly what was going on.
His eyes glinted shamelessly as he said,
"Well you have to take a broad
General view of things."
And that's what I have been doing.
Taking a broad general view of American troops raping and murdering
Helpless civilians while American officers stand around and yawn.
"Been at it a long time, lady.
It's the old army game from here to eternity."
It pays to pay the boys off.
Tacitus describes a typical scene...
"If a woman or a good looking boy Fell into their hands they were torn To pieces in the struggle for possession
And the survivors were left To cut each others' throats."
"Well, there's no need to be that messy.
Why waste a good-looking boy?
Mother loving American Army run by old women,
Many of them religious, my God;
Hanging Amercian soldiers
For raping and murdering civilians..."
Old Sarge bellows from here to eternity.
"WHAT THE BLOODY ****ING HELL ARE CIVILIANS FOR?
SOLDIERS' PAY."