Words from War

The Burden

I fly up high into the sky

I get shot down and wonder why

I fly up high into the sky

I get shot down but do not cry

This sacrifice I gladly make

This heavy price is mine to take

My fall from heaven, fall from grace

This single tear runs down your face

This world that's turned so very dark

The shadow creeps up through the ark

To take this life, though not in vain

Still it hurts, and causes pain

The empty void, a single hole

A place that once you called your soul

I fly up high into the sky

I get shot down and wonder why

I fly up high into the sky

I get shot down but will not lie

The honesty of one man's fate

Is fleeing now through hells gate

To take a life for your kin

In God's eyes is still a sin

A mortal sin we gladly pay

To keep you safe for one more day

And as he fell you did not shutter

The Oath we took was like no other

The looming threat of impending doom

That we agreed to in that room

Hand held high and voices loud

We had never felt so proud

I fly up high into the sky

I get shot down and wonder why

I fly up high into the sky

I get shot down because I try

Falling faster as I burn

To see your face is all I yearn

One more day, a hand held tight

These are reasons why we fight

The time we had, you'll never know

How it felt to let you go

The land I loved, what it meant to me

This place of dreams I'll never see

A flash of light, my life in trouble

Visions rise now from the rubble

The time we had, I'll always cherish

Now that I'm about to perish

I fly up high into the sky

I get shot down and wonder why

I fly up high into the sky

I get shot down and now I die

Standing weak, you'll all mourn

And talk of times when I was born

To the world, a name forgotten

Because this planets' become so rotten

To fight for life at any cost

But what's the point when all is lost

As time passes more will vanish

The gates of Hell is where we're banished

The one commandment we have shattered

All for orders we thought mattered

Knowing now how much it hurt

I'd rather be under dirt

Soul still pure and heaven waiting

All the Angels Celebrating

My Return, thy Kingdom come

For all the good that I have done

But instead, it fades to black

For the men that I've sent back

This sacrifice is mine to make

This heavy price is mine to take

So your soul can be pure

All my pain is your cure

I fly up high into the sky

I get shot down, don't wonder why

This life we live is our creation

It comes from all the devastation

When you look for whom to blame

In a mirror you'll see the same