Pavement of Bones

"War is the pinnacle of Man's failure as a race. Through war we satisfy no more than a need for blood and gain no more than an even greater need for blood."

 

Mankind with a need for conflict

Want a punchline you'll taste the rockets

Guns and bullets hit you like a comet

Knocking your eyes right out their socket

Through a lack of organization

Peace among worlds set off a vibration

People lay dead, so they rally the nation

Send the best in with all guns blazing

 

War is a series of stepping stones

Like stepping through bones and broken homes

Following the path where the bullet goes

Then writing it down in unspoken tomes

Plant me a seed where the dead men lie

Tell me a story bout dead men pride

Never in life has the dead run dry

Because as sure as day, the dead men die

 

Tell me, what was lost at the cost of war?

Souls of men forgotten like a tossed out whore

Cold cold winter see the frost on the door

That's just a line to be crossed once more

And no amount of peace can lift the curse

Did you know the word war comes from "worse"

Cause nothing can be worse than war itself

That's why death is how man defines it's wealth

 

Through the lives of innocents

A nation loses it's innocence

Sacrifice just to cleanse its sins

And no man has ended it since

From the void of what we lose

To carry the fight is what we choose

His death, hers, no asking whose

The nation's loose, tighten the screws

 

Now I know I wrote mind of a killer

But my mind since is ill-er, better deliver

Society's a temple and war is the pillar

Never has a blade been warmer than the winter

Right now my country's in peace and I'm loving it

Those who aren't say FUCK YOU to the government

I'm starting a new religion and peace is in the covenant

And if you dare to start a war then you'll be facing punishment

Holy shit that was a mouthful to say

I think I've kinda had enough for today

But this violence has me in a rough kind of way

Put away the bombs and put the guns on display