Why Do We Go To The Military

System of a down wrote a song called “B.O.Y.B” or bring your own bomb. They wrote this incredible protest song about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. This song came out in 2005 after the war had already been going on for a bit and continues to go on. They really tried to get you to think about what was happening and what the war was really about. Their use of sarcasm and metaphors really makes you think, and gives you a great song to listen to. The song is definitely a hard rock song, with a beat to make you bob your head to. How blind are we to what happens in our society? Do we really know what is going on in the world, besides what media feeds us? This song really enlightens us to some facts about our government and our military that we didn’t know about. The corruption of our government is worse than what we thought, and we are just mindless people who believe anything we are told.
In the first stanza we only have one line, “why do they always send the poor?” This is repeated nine more times during the song. Records show that “military recruits in the United States come from areas in which household income is lower than the national median” (military.com). The military seems to attract poor members of society because they offer …show more content…
It says “everybody’s going to the party, have a real good time, dancing in the desert, blowing up the sunshine.” The party being the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Recruiters for the military are trying to make it seem like a party to get people to join. They act like its nothing to join up and go to war. “Dancing in the desert” is the military fighting in the desert, dodging bullets and bombs. It could also mean the military celebrating after a successful mission. Bombs go off all the time and that could be where we get the “blowing up the sunshine.” Bombs going off could look like you are literally blowing up the sunshine. Could also imply that the war is taking away peoples good moods and