I've been trained for war
I've been bred to kill
I don't know how to stop
I don't know that I will
I remember the day
I married you
your mother in tears
your sister in blue
and I wish I could stay
who I was
who was who?
before I knew
before
I knew
the rest of the world
& everything's wrong
and we've all been lied to.
belonging
to what?
belonging to who?
And for God's sake,
why?
Oh God, how I loved you..
And I'm still on the edge
I'm in demand..
pledged.
And I know I must detonate
on command..
don't you see, honey?
half a world away..
is..
something I'll never be able to
explain.
oh, honey, I wish I could make you see..
I can't be
I can't be
any longer.
the man that you knew..
in this place,
mow the grass,
MTV and the cat,
and you're worried about
this and that..
and I don't care what the neighbor said about
your hair and your dress
I don't care what your boss does
the world is a mess
and I'm not making sense
this is all make-believe
I wake up in a sweat
and I dream burning leaves
and an 8 year old boy
earning his gun
and nothing is left,
no one, no one,
and never again
will we have a first kiss,
you are a stranger
what's the point of all this? and I
can't live out my life with the
world in my head
A prisoner of visions
I wish I were dead &
I can't bear to tell you
life is cheap after all
mothers & daughters & babies all fall
and I do my job and I did my job well
and now I'm condemned
to hell
and you look at me, crying,
and ask who I am,
who I was
doesn't matter
but this can't be
being a man.
look away.
look away.
let me take us away.