Verse 1: Only notions he considers are hollowed and lost thoughts Visions that confer only sorrow that time’s caught A ghost upon a body so shoddy and scared soft A mind so terrified it’s resigned and it’s shut off But that’s to be expected when a boy has been selected In his hands is placed a weapon as a soldier then directs him Shoot upon your father To refuse you’ll burn in horror No pursuit of pride and honor He just stands immersed in sweat Family eyes connect He holds his rifle to his chest His heart is heavy with regret as he unloads with his offence And “in the name of freedom” is chanted to loud applause While planted in his brain is an image of Hell crossed Sobbing in his spirit and fearing the holocaust He must compose himself or risk being the next lost Now every shadow hides a face he’s shot or blown to dust With every day he’s dying and getting more out of touch And every night he dreams he ends the death machine And finds a way to run from his stranger and this regime As morning leaves him choking and full of grief He’s hoping today will be the day that brings him a reprieve
Chorus If only we could find the fortune Instead of misfortune Would be see it’s out of proportion Or have we cut off our feet No way to retreat In nothing but defeat But if we can get us lost And try to take it off Could we clean up this distortion Try to make it soften Are we all orphans now Have we exhausted now And I never loathed a life But now I lead this war with me
Verse 2: I suspect my calm’s Manchurian in nature Just a matter of some time before she makes me waste ‘em Yet I possess no fury toward this stranger No I just feel allured by coming danger Change her I wouldn’t I want to ride the current of her storm Nourish on her sword And let my soul absorb And he of pure mind, let him to me accord Benevolence to ward off temptation that I have stored Cuz lord knows the craving in me grows With every step I took I knew the devil in me rose Waiting on a precipice so delicately posed A long and lovely fall no will or fire can oppose But the beauty of her form brings violence And I succumb to dancing with this Siren And I can feel the weight of this unload Perception has been altered now I see what she’s bestowed The wrath in me explodes and the sins of men are found The power of her sound reveals malevolence abound To he who sees no heaven amongst the clouds The reckoning is coming, get ready for buried ground Yet I can feel such impurity within I must expel the fiend and let its hole cave in And so to singe this evil now I pull the pin But clutch it to my heart to end the journey of my twin
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Verse 1: Only notions he considers are hollowed and lost thoughts Visions that confer only sorrow that time’s caught A ghost upon a body so shoddy and scared soft A mind so terrified it’s resigned and it’s shut off But that’s to be expected when a boy has been selected In his hands is placed a weapon as a soldier then directs him Shoot upon your father To refuse you’ll burn in horror No pursuit of pride and honor He just stands immersed in sweat Family eyes connect He holds his rifle to his chest His heart is heavy with regret as he unloads with his offence And “in the name of freedom” is chanted to loud applause While planted in his brain is an image of Hell crossed Sobbing in his spirit and fearing the holocaust He must compose himself or risk being the next lost Now every shadow hides a face he’s shot or blown to dust With every day he’s dying and getting more out of touch And every night he dreams he ends the death machine And finds a way to run from his stranger and this regime As morning leaves him choking and full of grief He’s hoping today will be the day that brings him a reprieve
Chorus If only we could find the fortune Instead of misfortune Would be see it’s out of proportion Or have we cut off our feet No way to retreat In nothing but defeat But if we can get us lost And try to take it off Could we clean up this distortion Try to make it soften Are we all orphans now Have we exhausted now And I never loathed a life But now I lead this war with me
Verse 2: I suspect my calm’s Manchurian in nature Just a matter of some time before she makes me waste ‘em Yet I possess no fury toward this stranger No I just feel allured by coming danger Change her I wouldn’t I want to ride the current of her storm Nourish on her sword And let my soul absorb And he of pure mind, let him to me accord Benevolence to ward off temptation that I have stored Cuz lord knows the craving in me grows With every step I took I knew the devil in me rose Waiting on a precipice so delicately posed A long and lovely fall no will or fire can oppose But the beauty of her form brings violence And I succumb to dancing with this Siren And I can feel the weight of this unload Perception has been altered now I see what she’s bestowed The wrath in me explodes and the sins of men are found The power of her sound reveals malevolence abound To he who sees no heaven amongst the clouds The reckoning is coming, get ready for buried ground Yet I can feel such impurity within I must expel the fiend and let its hole cave in And so to singe this evil now I pull the pin But clutch it to my heart to end the journey of my twin
