Soldier (I Earned the Right)

Go ahead, name one that's way harder than me

That fought wars on the battlefield and wars on the streets

Who you know came back to a broken family

Wifey dicked down by another soldier, not me

But I'm not used to defeat, but I'm used to wars

When things got tough, I did what I was trained for

I answered the door even though I knew that they were there

My weapon on semi at the high ready in the air

I was prepared, I had the element of surprise

See, what they wanted was for me to just motherfucking die

That I would sit in the corner and just motherfucking cry

She's gone and not coming back, so what motherfucking bye

Yeah, I lost my fucking mind and for a minute my pride

It was a deep bush, it wasn't easy for me to climb

But I took this war on blind, I turn it into my battlefield

Ration off my meals and conserve my cold blue steel

A skilled warrior that's trained, militant minded, insane

Subject to any domain, yeah, I'll blow out your brains

To pushing hard through the rain and digging deep in the snow

No matter what I do or where I go

I earned the right to say I'm a soldier

A basic training is done, been on the 12 mile run

I done slept with my gun, born to a crackhead mom

When you done did what I did and seen what I've seen

Either civilians or army greens

I earned the right to say I'm a soldier

They sayin' boy, let it go, this shit will eventually pass

I swear to God you won't always feel like that

It will be in your past, you will put it behind you

You will get a new life, a new mind, a new you

You will forget those kids that screamed "mister" at you

You will forget those days when they shot at you

Pulling security from a roof, I'm telling you it will pass

Somehow it will all go away and Rojas will come back

Hernandez will come back, no, he's still in Iraq

Him, Henry, and Frantz ain't never coming back

Specialist Huff took his own life because of this shit

In front of the VA hospital and they didn't do shit

As they continue to forget the sacrifices we made

The internal bleedings that we'll carry with us all of our days

If you don't feel this way, then you didn't dig no graves

You didn't give it all for that flag on your arm that fades

A skilled warrior that's trained, militant minded, insane

Subject to any domain, yeah, I'll blow out your brains

To pushing hard through the rain and digging deep in the snow

No matter what I do or where I go

I earned the right to say I'm a soldier

A basic training is done, been on the 12 mile run

I done slept with my gun, born to a crackhead mom

When you done did what I did and seen what I've seen

Either civilians or army greens

I earned the right to say I'm a soldier

See, when you done been where I've been

There's no doubt that you're a soldier

See, when you done seen what I've seen

There's no doubt that you're a soldier

See, when you done been where I've been

There's no doubt that you're a soldier

See, when you done seen what I've seen

There's no doubt that you're a soldier

Shooting guns for fun, planting grenades for laughs

Going out 5 and wide without any plates in my back

Just for a rush, infantry, I don't give a fuck

And when shots fired, either you with us or against us

And I ain't sitting in no truck, and I ain't scanning no sectors

I'm dropping that hammer, switching that selector lever

Most of these rappers clever, but this shit you can't fake

'Cause either you are, or you motherfucking ain't

A skilled warrior that's trained, militant minded, insane

Subject to any domain, yeah, I'll blow out your brains

To pushing hard through the rain and digging deep in the snow

No matter what I do or where I go

I earned the right to say I'm a soldier

A basic training is done, been on the 12 mile run

I done slept with my gun, born to a crackhead mom

When you done did what I did and seen what I've seen

Either civilians or army greens

I earned the right to say I'm a soldier

I'm back

It's war on the homefront, baby

It's Sergeant Dustin, yeah

We gon' give it to 'em this time, you dig?