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I didn't "get" Pat Tillman until Spring 2006, two years after he was killed. I read an sfgate piece that shattered me. I wrote words/music & recorded it right then, just me and my acoustic. The definitive version has been played but never recorded.
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MY OLDIES. In post-9/11 Bush-Cheney days, I vented by writing "MOp-eds", musical op-eds. I had an acoustic, electric, Yamaha keyboard, & MusicMaker10.
The light was all shining on me for a while there back in the oughts and I made some CDs and I uploaded some of the songs here. I came back in 2021, on the occasion of Darth Vadar's 80th birthday, to upload a couple more Dick (Cheney) songs I recorded back then, and I've re-ordered my songs so we can party like it's 2006 or 7.
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Vocals
Charts
#980 today Peak #95
#115 in subgenre Peak #12
Author
Stormin Norman
Rights
2006 Stormin Norman the nag
Uploaded
January 30, 2021
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.7 MB • 128 kbps • 4:01
Story behind the song
Like I said in the description...I was shattered. On several levels. My late Mom was a high school librarian. Pat's libraries killed me. How could I have not known about this guy until it was too late. RIP Pat Fucking Tillman and Thank You for your service.
Lyrics
TILLMAN. (Stormin Norman) I had no idea about the dude before he died I didn't like his teams I wrote him off as just some football guy Then the news from some cold ridge somewhere in Afghanistan Marked the start of getting hip at last to one outstanding man But it broke my heart in two Learning how he died what he went through Everybody heard how he turned down all those Benjamins First for loyalty and then to hunt Osama Bin Forget about the bucks how many people know about his books? The ones he carried through the wars running libraries for grunts and cooks And it breaks my heart in two Thinkin' how he really died and how he knew Oh Tillman I didn't see the truth They laid it on so thick with the flag and apple pie Then they covered you up with a shroud of lies Looking back along the way I missed a clue or three Like his hair that screamed F U you're not the boss of me His going off to war turned out to be all heart with not a speck of stunt If I ever doubted that just beat me hard with something blunt And it will forever break my heart in two Knowing how Pat died and that he knew 'Cause Tillman was the best we had to give He knew how to think work and play love and fight Hell the guy just knew what it means to live And yet Pat Effing Tillman's boys nailed him up on that hill If that don't scream that war's insane I guess maybe nothing ever will Nothing ever will Nothing ever will Nothing ever will
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