A Sense of Doubt blog post #4088 - "Boots on the Ground" - Tom Waits and Massive Attack - Music Monday 2604.27

A Sense of Doubt blog post #4088 - "Boots on the Ground" - Tom Waits and Massive Attack - Music Monday 2604.27

Just this today.

Because, you know why.

More placards of information at the end of the video below.

Massive Attack / Tom Waits - "Boots on the Ground"

Massive Attack and Tom Waits

Apr 16, 2026

Film created by Massive Attack (working with US photo artist thefinaleye). This montage work portrays a momentous American epoch that is yet to be named, and comes in the aftermath of the largest public protests in American history - focused on opposition to ICE raids, the militarisation of domestic forces, and state authoritarianism. 

The film quotes statistics and research by the following sources: American Immigration Council, American Civil Liberties Union, Inside Higher Ed, National Coalition for Homeless Veterans, US National Library of Medicine, US National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Privacy International, FactCheck.org. Viewers seeking further information or wishing to take action are encouraged to visit aclu.org, veterans-aid.net, immigrantdefenseproject.org, and freedomforimmigrants.org.

Lyrics:

Big legs dangle from a helicopter hole

Big chug rhythm it’s gotta be now ho!

Brown, mean and young

Dumb and full of cum

What can you use a marine for

This is a fucking ass machine gun war

With your boots on the ground 

Boots on the ground

Boots on the ground

Boots on the ground

We trim your hedges, we fight your wars

Wait in the trenches, and we fuck ‘til we’re sore

Boots on the ground

Boots on the ground

Born shiny bullets in an army of ants

Blow that horn, we sleep in our pants

Big titties, big titties

Well we holler and we burn down cities

Boots on the ground

Boots on the ground

Shootin up the town

Stayin in the hole until Jimmy Hoffa is found

With my boots on the ground

Well something goes tink when the cartridge is spent

Where do you think all your cartilage went

Boots on the ground

Boots on the ground

Now who the hell are these federal pricks?

Hiding in the senate like a bloated ass tick

Air conditioned fuckstick loafers

Sittin in a room full of army posters

A coal to a diamond, a vote into law

They Campaign up all the blood they can draw

Mold your world, a soldier’s just clay

How much does every soldier weigh?

Cut you off at the ankles and they throw that away

Boots on the ground

It’s cold and hot, as Satan’s .hoof

Spinning on the world I’m hiding on a roof

I kill a brown man I never ass knew

Choked on spit and then he turned blue

He spattered black blood, he rolled fin out

He died right here I got the pearl from his snout

A puff of gray smoke from the tongue of a cloud

He rotted in the sand and all that they found was his

boots on the ground, boots on the ground, boots on the ground

All that they found was his boots on the ground, boots on the ground

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2604.27 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 3952 days ago & DAD = 606 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.