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Spent Lives
Away from my family away from my home
I sit here in this desert cold, lying prone
With my weapon in my hand
And my thoughts so bleek and bland
That moment will come
When my enemies will secumb
The anger swells inside me
My friends and family beside me
Now! Sparks of light flash in the sky
All around me the bullets fly
Making streaks across the night
Of the ammo in its flight
No! theyʼve fallen around
me, theyʼre lying on the ground
My brothers have given up their lives
For this democracy, and so it strives
What was the worth of this great sacrifice?
Now my hearts as cold as ice
Iʼm madder than Iʼve ever been
Never again will I grin
I grab my gun ready to return
The death that in my soul does burn
I pull that trigger with all my might
I look straight down my gunʼs barrel sight
The fiend who slaughtered my brother
Is now dead just like the others
The fight is over on this cold night
I feel inside me a cold, cold fright
The battles over, more lives this war will spend
But in my heart, this raging war will never end.
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