Paul Hardcastle – Nineteen
There are songs that you just have to listen to at maximum volume ... and this is one of them!
This song was a super hit in dance clubs back then! But even those who spoke English could not understand the text properly, at most a few scraps of words. Otherwise just the colossal basses, the massive drums and the unusual staccato vocals - it was absolutely crazy!
It wasn't until a long time later that I really realized what a harrowing theme this song describes.
youtu.be/oho9KaoxI-4
„They fought the longest war in American history
They fought the longest war in American history
In 1965 Vietnam seemed like just another foreign war, but it wasn't
It was different in many ways, as so were those that did the fighting
In World War II the average age of the combat soldier was twenty-six
In Vietnam he was nineteen
The heaviest fighting of the past two weeks
Continued today twenty-five miles northwest of Saigon
I really wasn't sure what was going on
Nineteen, nineteen
Nineteen, nineteen
In Vietnam the combat soldier typically served a twelve-month tour of duty
But was exposed to hostile fire almost every day
Nineteen
In Saigon a US military spokesman said today
More than seven hundred enemy troops were killed last week
In that sensitive border area
In all of South Vietnam
The enemy lost a total of two thousand six hundred eighty-nine soldiers
....
All those who remember the war
They won't forget what they've seen
Destruction of men in their prime
Whose average age was nineteen
Destruction
Destruction
According to a Veteran's Administration study
Half of the Vietnam combat veterans suffered from what psychiatrists call
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Many vets complain of alienation, rage, or guilt
Some succumb to suicidal thoughts
Eight to ten years after coming home
Almost eight-hundred-thousand men
Are still fighting the Vietnam War
Destruction
Destruction
None of them received a hero's welcome
None of them received a hero's welcome
Nineteen
Saigon
Nineteen, ninteen
Vietnam
Saigon
Purple heart, Saigon
All we want to do is come home
All we want to do is come home“
There are songs that you just have to listen to at maximum volume ... and this is one of them!
This song was a super hit in dance clubs back then! But even those who spoke English could not understand the text properly, at most a few scraps of words. Otherwise just the colossal basses, the massive drums and the unusual staccato vocals - it was absolutely crazy!
It wasn't until a long time later that I really realized what a harrowing theme this song describes.
youtu.be/oho9KaoxI-4
„They fought the longest war in American history
They fought the longest war in American history
In 1965 Vietnam seemed like just another foreign war, but it wasn't
It was different in many ways, as so were those that did the fighting
In World War II the average age of the combat soldier was twenty-six
In Vietnam he was nineteen
The heaviest fighting of the past two weeks
Continued today twenty-five miles northwest of Saigon
I really wasn't sure what was going on
Nineteen, nineteen
Nineteen, nineteen
In Vietnam the combat soldier typically served a twelve-month tour of duty
But was exposed to hostile fire almost every day
Nineteen
In Saigon a US military spokesman said today
More than seven hundred enemy troops were killed last week
In that sensitive border area
In all of South Vietnam
The enemy lost a total of two thousand six hundred eighty-nine soldiers
....
All those who remember the war
They won't forget what they've seen
Destruction of men in their prime
Whose average age was nineteen
Destruction
Destruction
According to a Veteran's Administration study
Half of the Vietnam combat veterans suffered from what psychiatrists call
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Many vets complain of alienation, rage, or guilt
Some succumb to suicidal thoughts
Eight to ten years after coming home
Almost eight-hundred-thousand men
Are still fighting the Vietnam War
Destruction
Destruction
None of them received a hero's welcome
None of them received a hero's welcome
Nineteen
Saigon
Nineteen, ninteen
Vietnam
Saigon
Purple heart, Saigon
All we want to do is come home
All we want to do is come home“
