I flew home to pennsylvania with a monkey on my back
Fresh from my second tour of duty in that shit hole of iraq
Now i'm not blaming anybody after all i was free to chose
I started drinking every night and doing drugs
Listening to robert johnson sing his blues
I told my wife just to leave me alone until these demons are all gone
She cried baby don't you leave me again
Don't you know you are finally home from
Somewhere east of eden
Somewhere east of eden
That's where i'll wait for you
Somewhere east of eden
An iraqi family in an chevy citation ran our checkpoint in a firefight
As i pulled their bodies from that buring wreck something inside me died
I tried to wash the blood away but i can't escape the smell
I pray the lord my soul to keep because i spent my time in hell
Please don't ask me to forget that's not what i need
Every night when i close my eyes i can hear them scream from
Somewhere east of eden
Somewhere east of eden
That's where i'll wait for you
Somewhere east of eden
They said this once was paradise where adam took an apple from eve
Who led him into temptation where he stepped on an ied
Just like my friends who were blown apart
Is this all some kind of cosmic mistake
I swear i left the best part of me in the god forsaken place
I drove a million dollar killing machine
I was a master of the war
Now back home in the usa
I had to take a job parking cars
Somewhere east of eden
Somewhere east of eden
That's where i'll wait for you
Somewhere east of eden