I got the idea for these lyrics after I saw Panorama on BBC 1 last month. It was about the British
army in Iraq, the soldiers were complaining that they have got no equipment and that they have
to borrow everything from the Americans. One of them said that the Americans keep calling
them the Borrowers, you could see as well on the soldiers faces that it was destroying moraal.
Then they come home to live in a condemned government house with fucking mould all over the
walls. Poor sods !!!! Tony Blair has got 200 pound a roll wall paper on his walls, British army
personnel have got mould on theirs. Blair orders his troops to drive around in Land Rovers in
the middle of a war zone, whilst he drives around in an armored car in a safe country, I heard
that British locals are getting upset when they see the PM's armored car. Get your arse into a
soft top Land Rover Blair, cos you are upsetting the locals !
The Borrowers
Borrowing my boots and a bullet proof vest, I'm a British soldier and I
try my best. To fight a war in a far off land, my gun won't work if there's
too much sand. Thinking of my family they are so very far, I'd be so
much safer in the presidents car. Bullet proof and very fast, wall to
wall protection in a suicide blast. Here comes a terrorist, or an innocent
Man ? Is he gonna shoot me ? Do I shoot him while I can ?
My political masters are all safe and well, but they sent me to this sandy
hell. No equipment and nothing nice to eat. No air conditioning, in the
blistering desert heat. Another day begins my best mate died last night,
shot through the head, he sadly lost the fight. A brave man dead for one
political lie. Are you gonna tell his wife and kids, just why he had to die ?
My tour of duty is over the plane home is very old, my house has been
condemned, my bath is full of mould. All the thanks I get for risking
my life, is a condemned house to live in, and a frightened, anxious wife.
The electorate sent us to fight and die, while they stayed at home, I saw
a Child's leg get blown off, I could even see the bone. I see her face
when I close my eyes, I can even hear her screams. How can I ever
again,,, have loving pleasant dreams ?
[Dedicated to British Servicemen And Women]
If you voted for this war you made a very big mistake. You are so mindless,
a lying, cheating politician can fool you into supporting his illegal war.
Bush and Blair's " Weapons of mass desrtuction"... Where were they then ?
Military Families Against The War