This Means War

Album: Hail to the King (2013)
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  • Hide my face again, harbor in the shadows
    Feel this weight of sin hammering away
    Die, with the guilt of a thousand AWOL soldiers
    Die, watch the scythe usher me astray

    I can't go on this way
    Not as I am today
    The ugly side of me is strong

    Take aim, a loaded gun
    Pull back on all who run
    A coward's truth inside the wrong

    This means war
    This means war
    This means war

    Lash your tongue of bane
    Carry me to nowhere
    Mental holocaust
    Battle never ends
    Lie, mask the pain
    Of a child who's forsaken
    Lie, to myself
    Praise the new regime

    I left me long ago
    Reasons you'll never know
    No one to miss me when I'm gone
    With no more words to say
    No argument to stay
    Another post I don't belong

    This means war
    This means war
    This means war
    This means war
    This means war

    No home to call my own
    No finding someone new
    No one to break the fall
    No one to see me through
    No name to carry on
    No promise for today
    No one to hear the call
    No tattered flag to raise

    Walk the razor's edge
    Cut into the madness
    Question all you trust
    Buy into the fear
    I see the man ripping at my soul now
    I, I know the man
    I know him all too well

    There's nothing here for free
    Lost who I want to be
    My serpent blood can strike so cold
    On any given day
    I'll take it all away
    Another thought I can't control

    This means war
    This means war
    This means war
    This means war
    This means war Writer/s: Brian Haner, Jonathan Seward, Matthew Sanders, Zachary Baker
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, TuneCore Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Jodie from MdWar, even of the mind, or in spite of it, is sad but true.
  • Spencer from Denver-coloradoI here this song on the radio a lot (mostly KBPI usa radio channel).
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