First Blood

[Verse 1]

Mail-ordered body armor

Map to the Blue Bucket Mine

Guy who had a place down by the lakeside

Changing water to wine

[Chorus 1]

Devastating schematics

Rough drafts of the 23rd Psalm

Paul Kersey never left his apartment

John Rambo never went to Vietnam

[Verse 2]

Armor-piercing Black Talons

From the first production run

Nobody's seen them in the wild

Since 1991

[Chorus 2]

Out in the cul-de-sacs at midnight

Where the candy for the cannons comes from

I heard Buford Pusser was dirty

John Rambo never went to Vietnam

[Verse 3]

Shall we rise to the occasion

Or go to sleep for good in the trenches?

Dug in beneath a brilliant blue sky

Helmets hanging high in the branches

[Chorus 3]

Empty vessels by the dozens

Diamonds in the sun

We worship nothing in the foxholes

John Rambo never went to Vietnam

[Refrain]

John Rambo never went to Vietnam