Miley Cyrus Lyrics - Mike Posner

1 When I was a young man I carried my pack

2 And lived the free life of the rover

3 I smoked on sativa, guitar on my back

4 And played my little songs all over

5 But in 2010, my country said: "son

6 It's time to stop rambling, there's work to be done"

7 And they gave me a tin hat, and they gave me a gun

8 And they shipped me away to the war

9 And the DJ played Miley Cyrus

10 A Party in the USA

11 And the DJ played Miley Cyrus

12 And we flew to the Afghan that day

13 I remember the day our orders came in

14 I was scared and my stomach was sinking

15 And when Martinez got shot, I cried with my gun

16 And I fired right back without blinking

17 And we moved down the range, we pumped ourselves well

18 We chased them with bullets

19 And we showered them with shells

20 And in ten minutes flat, we'd blown them to hell

21 I thought of my mom in Atlanta

22 'Cause she always loved Miley Cyrus

23 A Party In The USA

24 Though the words seemed to take on new meaning

25 As I turned nineteen on that day

26 I looked at my brothers who'd once been young boys

27 And their eyes have gone black from the slaughters

28 And for ten weary weeks I kept myself for life

29 As we moved down the range towards the water

30 But then one day a shell knocked my ass over head

31 And when I woked up in my hospital bed

32 And when I saw what it had done I wished I was dead

33 I never knew there were worse things than dying

34 And the nurses hummed Miley Cyrus

35 As the doctors explained what was wrong

36 Yeah, the nurses hummed Miley Cyrus

37 But I no longer cared for that song

38 They collected the wounded, the crippled, the maimed

39 And they sent us all home to Atlanta

40 The armless, the legless, the blind and the insane

41 I wore fatigues and a blood red bandana

42 We landed on the same runway we'd lefted on February

43 And when I looked down where my legs used to be

44 I thanked God that no one was waiting for me

45 To grieve and to mourn and to pity

46 And the DJ played Miley Cyrus, again

47 A Party In The USA

48 And no one cheered they just stared at us

49 And slowly turned their heads away

50 Yes, they slowly turned their heads away