I've got a bright red sticker on the back of my car

Says: "United States Marines "

An' yesterday a lady in a mini-van

Held up her middle finger at me

Does she think she knows what I stand for

Or the things that I believe

Just by looking at a sticker for the US Marines

On the bumper of my S U V

See my brother Chris he's been in

For more than 14 years now

Our Dad was in the Navy during Vietnam

Did his duty then he got out

And my Grandpa earned his Purple Heart

On the beach of Normandy

That's why I've got a sticker for the US Marines

On the bumper of my S U V

But that doesn't mean that I want war:

I'm not Republican or Democrat

But I've gone all around this crazy world

Just to try to better understand

An' yes I do have questions:

I get to ask them because I'm free

That's why I've got a sticker for the US Marines

On the bumper of my S U V

'Cause I've been to Hiroshima

An' I've been to the DMZ

I've walked on the sand in Baghdad

Still don't have all of the answers I need

But I guess I wanna know where she's been

Before she judges and gestures to me

'Cause she don't like my sticker for the US Marines

On the bumper of my S U V

So I hope that lady in her mini-van

Turns on her radio and hears this from me

As she picks up her kids

From their private school

An' drives home safely on our city streets

Or to the building where her church group meets:

Yeah that's why I've got a sticker for the US Marines

On the bumper of my S U V