The Hurt Locker

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(Bigelow, 2008)
The magazine lands in the sand

Apocalypse Now is in my top 3 favourite films ever, but this is a pretty perfect portrait of modern warfare. Of course diffusing bombs is not new, and it’s interesting to go back and look at archive footage of bomb disposal teams in Belfast in the 1970s to see how similar the routine is. What this encapsulates, devastatingly so, is the inevitable dissatisfaction with everyday life after a period doing something so much more intense (even if the intensity only sporadically punctuates long periods of hanging around waiting).

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The things that you love just don’t seem so special
I act like I try but never can settle
Back in the desert they need me to work
At least that way I know it won’t hurt

Blaster one do you read me? Break out the suit, you’re in the kill zone
Listen sir, do you hear me? We will shoot you, put down your cellphone
Bleed out like a pig in the sand all alone

Mangy cats and minarets as the night sun melts into the dunes
I wanna die comfortable, he won’t make it, a survivable wound
The magazine lands in the sand and he’s down

The things that you love just don’t seem so special
I act like I try but never can settle
Back in the desert they need me to work
At least that way I know it won’t hurt

I will not meet my enemy, not in paradise nor in this short life
Stop and cancel the mission, search his insides for another device
It’s a jack-in-the-box and I’ve locked myself in

Hurt, hurt, hurt...

The magazine lands in the sand and he’s down

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from Soundtrack, released September 26, 2016

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