Agent Orange Blues

Agent Orange Blues by edgardo on soundcloud

A poem by Beto Conde | music by edgardo

I got the Agent Orange Blues
Sprayed over my head and my jungle Bed
Forty years gone, now something here is wrong
It’s closing in on me
Why won’t it let me be?

I got the Agent Orange blues
Traveling down the years to find me
I never placed the order
Still I pay and pay
This son of a bitch will not go away
I got the Agent Orange Blues

I got the Agent Orange blues;
The government swears I’m lying
But it feels so much like dying
They say he ain’t really nuts
Maybe just a little stressed out
Maybe he’ll just go away
His kind get fewer every day

To cure these Agent Orange blues
Grandma’s home remedies just won’t do
The Agent Orange burrows so deep inside
Springs the ambush, kills me some
Then it goes off to hide
Sneaky-ass Agent Orange Blues

Woke up this morning;
Nothing is where it should be;
Down is up, up is down
Lord, I feel I’m headed underground
No one needs me around
I feel I’m going down

Now don’t feel so lucky to be left out
The Agency still has quite the clout
They got poison mixing up especially for you too

Right now all I can do is
Try just to survive the death moving inside
They call the agent Orange Blues