Thanks for coming out
 
 on my birthday,
 
 but please listen up,
 
 I've got something to say.
 
  
  I've joined the Red Cross,
 
 I'm gonna get lost
 
 in some bloody war in Africa,
 
 I leave this month on the 23rd.
  
 
 I'm leaving behind
 
 everything fine,
 
 unreal, contrived,
 
 so I can find out
 
 what's really mine.
  
 
 I've joined the Red Cross,
 
 I'm gonna get lost
 
 in some bloody war in Africa,
 
 where machetes gangs roam the streets,
 
 I leave next week on the 23rd.