War - The Gloom In The Corner

I walk across the sea of flames

Against the firing line

Being told they’re

The ones to blame

We invade, we destroy

Innocence tattered and torn

They run in terror

We scorch their earth

Dead bodies, stacked ten feet high

I can still see them before my eyes

Men, women, and children

Their life drained from their eyes

We were all sent there to die

The memories still haunt me

The memories still haunt me

There’s a problem in the world today

I pushed you all away

So I could hide my pain

The constant torment of never-ending flashbacks

Fear behind a smiling mask, I hate what I see in reflective glass

Hell above and below

I never intended to hurt those I love

In the same way I hurt those I was taught to hate

And, oh god, the lines become more blurred every day

(Voices talking)

Voices in my head

Ringing in my ears

Blood and sand in my eyes

Across the desert lies

A plain white flag

Held in a little boy’s hands

He never stood a chance

So stop screaming my name

We’re not the ones to blame

We’re all just pawns to their game

Another face with no name

«Dying in his name»

So stop screaming my name

Stop screaming my name

It won’t do a thing

I have stared death in the face

And spoke words so strange

I bear my cross with disdain

Bearing the souls of the slain

I gave up all that I own

My love, my family, my home

But what I regret the most

Is giving up hope

Lay me down, descend me to the darkness

Pray for me, for I have lost salvation

I suppress my memories with poisons

Replace my life with the little boy’s I should have saved

Disassemble.

Rearrange

Praise me for my accolades

But when I cry for help, all you do is talk of shame

Though my tour is ended the sound continues

And the sound of war is endless

Now I’m drowning in a bottle of substance

Waking in the middle of the night

Screaming to memories

I can still hear them screaming

The blade feels so cold

Pressed against my skin

I am the one that never grows old (we are the ones that never grow old)

Remember me for me, not my end

Do you know what its like when your gun jams

And you’re standing face to face

With a man who wants to die for his country

Who wants to die for his beliefs

He raises his gun

And fires away

God abandoned me?

God abandoned us all

I walk across the sea of flames