Song | At War With Me |
Artist | Zack Hemsey |
Album | Empty Room |
Download | Image LRC TXT |
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 | |
Chorus |
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 | |
Chorus |
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 | |
Chorus |