Name: Pech River Valley
Duration: P00H04M04S
Description: Pech River Valley is about Cristoval Lemus' experience in Afghanistan. Cristoval was deployed with 1/327th INF, 101st Airborne Division, Air Assault.

Pech River Valley

from New Music Monday by Operation Song

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Pech River Valley is about Cristoval Lemus' experience in Afghanistan. Cristoval was deployed with 1/327th INF, 101st Airborne Division, Air Assault.

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I first enlisted at 19 years old
Seven months later they dropped me in that fishbowl
When my days are done, for that final tally
The longest year of my life will be the Pech River Valley
Five o’clock in the mornin’ for our wake up call
RPGs, mortars, and bullets would fall
We’d run to the trucks, start laying bursts down
But it’s hard on your soul when they’ve got the high ground

It was bullets for breakfast then out on patrol
Lookin’ for contact on that windin’ road
I thank God for my brothers in that darkest alley
And say a prayer for the ones we lost there -
In the Pech River Valley

Well it ain’t easy leaving those bullets behind
The toughest battle of all is the one in your mind
No one gets out without some kind of demon
They mess with your head and they nightmare your dreamin’
It’s pills or the bottle to chase them away
Cause they come around any time, night or day
And here on the home front there’s nowhere to run
It ain’t easy for none, but it’s harder for some

Repeat Chorus (It’s bullets for breakfast...)

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from New Music Monday, released January 28, 2021
Written by Army Veteran Cristoval Lemus and Chuck Jones

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