In this room full of people

I am still ten thousand miles away

In the eye of my broken mind

I woke that night and cried out

I saw you running through the flames

I knew that you were gone forever

I've lain down my weapons

I'll take part in this no more

I turn my back to all of this

Though they stabbed me with the scorn

The choice was never mine to make

Why did it have to end up here

It is well that war is so terrible

Yet we seem to love it so

The eternal insane cycle

Can't we ever break it's toll

Do you hear these words when I cry out loud?

Never giving in your own free will

It is well that war is so terrible

'Cause only the dead have seen the end of war

I've seen the darkened anger

Steal the sight from searching eyes

The bloodstained flags and hollow words

It's how they keep us blind

The things I've seen

The things I've done

The ones I've killed will haunt me forever

Blood rushes to the ground

A widow weeps, there's no sadder sound

We go for darkness and despair

Imprisoned within my own mind

If all guns once were silenced

Would we have killed what was left inside?

It is well that war is so terrible

Yet we seem to love it so

The eternal insane cycle

Can't we ever break it's toll

Do you hear these words when I cry out loud?

Never giving in your own free will

It is well that war is so terrible

'Cause only the dead have seen the end of war