Skit 4 Songtext
von Lowkey

July 4th, 2005, I joined the United States military
And swore an oath to defend the Constitution
Against all enemies, foreign and domestic
I went through basic training, I went through technical school
And at the end of my technical school
I was brought into the drone program
Even though they didn′t tell me that I, what it was
They said "You're gonna go to Nevada
And you′ll find out when you get there"
And so I showed up, and they put us in a theater no bigger than this
And they showed a montage video of drone strikes
Bap-bap-bap-bap-bap-boom! Boom-boom-boom-boom!
Played to heavy metal music
And at the end of the, the video, a sergeant came down the center
And he stood in front of us, and he said
"Your job is to kill people and break things"
And I thought to myself, this isn't why I joined
I joined for very patriotic reasons, to get my education
It's not free in America
And to impress a pretty girl


So I went to my commander and I was like
"Sir, I′m not sure that I could do this job
I′m not sure that I could ever pull the trigger on somebody"
And he was like "You swore an oath to defend the
Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic
You will obey the lawful orders of those appointed over you
You will do your job"
And I was trapped
My father, my grandfather, actually, he's really my father figure
I didn′t want to disappoint him
I wanted to be worth something
This is what all veterans want
They want to be worth something
They fight for a reason
They fight because they care
They don't want to look weak
They want to look strong
They want to fight for a noble cause, an honorable cause
And so I did it
I did it for five years and five days
I killed thirteen people
And this is how you make life cheap
You show someone that you can end a life at the push of a button
When I was younger, war had no meaning to me
It was something of distant lands, and it was something of, of history
And here, it was very real
I was a gamer, I was an athlete