Blood and Fire

There’s a firestorm outside my window,

The sky is red, the world is raw.

The Devil’s come to claim his trophy.

“Once more unto the breach”, they call.

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The fight is fierce, the price is brutal,

Rifles rock the whole night through.

We make our stand along the frontline,

Our eyes are black, our bodies blue.

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Do you fear death as I do?

Share the dreams that won’t come true?

Give our futures for the cause,

Defend all that we ever knew.

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See the lights shine in the distance,

I wonder if the people thought

We’d spill their blood upon these mountains,

And strip this nation down to naught.

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We fight our way through blood and fire,

And push them back towards the sea,

Raze their earth and steal their treasure,

All justified by God’s decree.

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Do you share the same guilt I do?

Hear the screams that haunt the night?

A symphony of violent slaughter,

The war that we were forced the fight.

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They came in hard and showed no mercy,

To neither men nor women – nor children, too.

Reduced our homes to ash and cinder,

A destruction we can’t ever undo.

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Generations left in ruin,

Dead, enslaved – their spoils of war.

We shan’t forgive, must never forget,

The day those monsters broke our shore.

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Do you feel the same rage I do,

For the enemy who ruined our lives?

Will history recall our struggle?

Or will we be resigned to time?

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A land they ordered us to conquer,

That – or stand against the wall.

When it began, we were twice as many.

What was the purpose of it all?

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I’ll walk this earth, I’ll drown the memories,

I’ll touch the graves of men I knew,

And try to forget those days of horror,

But ghosts are foes you cannot subdue.

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Do you hate yourself as I do?

Wish the world would swallow you whole?

Then take a seat here at my table,

You’ve found a fellow tortured soul.