Miley Cyrus

Mike Posner

[Verse 1]
 When I was a young man I carried my pack
 And lived the free life of the rover
 I smoked on sativa, guitar on my back
 And played my little songs all over

[Pre-Chorus 1]
 But in 2010, my country said: "son
 It's time to stop rambling, there's work to be done"
 And they gave me a tin hat, and they gave me a gun
 And they shipped me away to the war

[Chorus]
 And the DJ played Miley Cyrus
 A Party in the USA
 And the DJ played Miley Cyrus
 And we flew to the Afghan that day

[Verse 2]
 I remember the day our orders came in
 I was scared and my stomach was sinking
 And when Martinez got shot, I cried with my gun
 And I fired right back without blinking

[Pre-Chorus 2]
 And we moved down the range, we pumped ourselves well
 We chased them with bullets
 And we showered them with shells
 And in ten minutes flood we blown them to hell
 I thought of my mom in Atlanta

[Chorus]
 Cause she always loved Miley Cyrus
 A Party In The USA
 Though the words seemed to take on new meaning
 As I turned nineteen on that day

[Verse 3]
 I looked at my brothers who'd once been young boys
 And their eyes have gone black from the slaughters
 And for ten weary weeks I kept myself for life
 As we moved down the range towards the water

[Pre-Chorus 3]
 But then one day a shell knocked my ass over head
 And when I woked up in my hospital bed
 And when I saw what it had done I wished I was dead
 I never knew there were worse things than dying

[Chorus]
 And the nurses hummed Miley Cyrus
 As the doctors explained what was wrong
 Yeah, the nurses hummed Miley Cyrus
 But I no longer cared for that song

[Verse 4]
 They collected the wounded, the crippled, the maimed
 And they sent us all home to Atlanta
 The armless, the legless, the blind and the insane
 I wore fatigues and a blood red bandana

[Pre-Chorus 4]
 We landed on the same runway we'd lefted on February
 And when I looked down where my legs used to be
 I thanked God that no one was waiting for me
 To grieve and to mourn and to pity

[End-Chorus]
 And the DJ played Miley Cyrus, again
 A Party In The USA
 And no one cheered they just stared at us
 And slowly turned their heads away
 Yes, they slowly turned their heads away