Name: Tucson to Tehran
Duration: P00H03M44S
Description: Suicide has become an equal partner in the deaths of American service men and women. This song is about a fictional soldier, but the story is real. So is the admonition at the end.

Tucson to Tehran

from Plain & Simple (remixed) (album) by Darrell Elmer Rodgers with Rick Heyman

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Suicide has become an equal partner in the deaths of American service men and women. This song is about a fictional soldier, but the story is real. So is the admonition at the end.

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Tucson to Tehran words and music by Darrell E. Rodgers, Jr.

Bobby left his home up on the mountain
Far above the Tucson city line
He joined the Army for an education
But what he learned was heavy on his mind

They sent him off to fight the Taliban
In someplace torn by thirty years of war
He could only guess that he succeeded
‘cause he didn’t have to stay there anymore

Before he could find a new job in Tucson
His unit got called up again
Seems two weeks of active duty in the Guard
Can be two weeks that never end

Well he found himself in Baghdad
Patrolling dusty streets through hell
When they finally brought him home to Tucson
He had deeper wounds than we could tell

Sometimes the guilt of his survival
Can drive a soldier half insane
Bobby sought a permanent solution
To his temporary pain

Nothin’ stops the pain
Like a bullet in the brain

Well there’s other kind of casualties
Than they report on the evening news
Too many young men just like Bobby
Minds are broken, Hearts confused

Well it’s seven thousand miles and more
From Tucson to Tehran
Some folks say we’re never goin’ there
But we’d better change the road we’re on
Yeah, we’d better change the road we’re on.

Copyright © 2009 by Darrell Elmer Rodgers. All rights reserved.

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from Plain & Simple (remixed) (album), released April 24, 2009
Darrell Elmer Rodgers - vocals, slide guitar
Rick Heyman - bass
Written by Darrell Elmer Rodgers

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Darrell Elmer Rodgers Las Cruces, New Mexico

Darrell Elmer Rodgers is a veteran singer-songwriter. He has been called the Bard of the Baby-Boomers for songs that celebrate his generation's life and times.

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