[Intro: synth pulse, drum machine] [Spoken: male news anchor] September, nineteen-seventy. Laos. [Stuttered sample] Se-se-se-seventy. [Verse 1: spoken, male news anchor] Tonight, a special report. An American unit, deep inside Laos. Four days. A hundred and twenty men in the grass. And an allegation. [Hook: vocoder] Sixteen went in. Sixteen came out. [Verse 2: spoken, male news anchor] Our sources say the gas was not tear gas. Our sources say there were defectors in that camp. Our sources say. [Stuttered sample] N-n-n-nerve gas. [Hook: vocoder] Sixteen went in. Sixteen came out. [Break: a man's voice far away, humming an old church hymn, over the drum machine] [Verse 3: spoken, female news anchor] Tonight, the network retracts. The report could not be supported. The network regrets. [Stuttered sample] Re-re-re-retracts. [Verse 4: spoken, old man, close to the mic] Every one of them bleeding. Every one. [Verse 5: spoken, two voices] There was a tall man in khaki, running out the back of the camp. Could've been anybody. It was him. Could've been anybody. [Hook: vocoder] Sixteen went in. Sixteen came out. [Outro: spoken, young man, quiet] I colored it yellow. [Synth pulse stops] [End]
