Believe the Dead Lyrics

I see white light ahead

I can't turn back

Billions of lives

we've led

For this attack

Dead bodies on the ground

Enter the fray

Nobody ever said

it'd be this way

the planets getting hotter

but the worlds getting colder

So if these souls

shoulder the boulder

Why do we call them

soldiers

We should call them

Atlas

Cause the fact is

their back is practiced

as the Galactic world holders

Put that in the folder

labeled national defense

depends on decent pretense

I see white light ahead

I can't turn back

Billions of lives

we've led

For this attack

Dead bodies on the ground

Enter the fray

Nobody ever said

it'd be this way

Vets in debt

getting met

with contempt

left no net gain

from the government

they defended in vain

Many slain

tied in chains

bullet rain

feigning death

only to mainly be left

insanely bereft

and in painful duress

Yet the vainly dressed

plainly blessed

are cutting funding

to the one thing

that made their war

a success

Bet

I see white light ahead

I can't turn back

Billions of lives

we've led

For this attack

Dead bodies on the ground

Enter the fray

Nobody ever said

it'd be this way

Did they deserve

a cut of the oil

that surfaced

while they

were in service?

If they the soldier

of fortune

shouldn’t they

get a portion?

Extortion

of endorsements

from the armed forces

while outsourcing

Weapons manufacturing

fractals fracturing

factions of impaction

blackening into dust

Freedom isn’t free

the elite charge a fee

for we the people like us

I see white light ahead

I can't turn back

Billions of lives

we've led

For this attack

Dead bodies on the ground

Enter the fray

Nobody ever said

it'd be this way

Chrome drones

hone in flown in

like Odin Ravens

Zone in Blowing Homes

to Smoldering Stones

of Cold Pavement

no saving

the haven

that caved in

brave men

slaving

only to be made in

to chagrinned vagrants

yet it’s painted as painless

God bless

the land

of the thankless

I see white light ahead

I can't turn back

Billions of lives

we've led

For this attack

Dead bodies on the ground

Enter the fray

Nobody ever said

it'd be this way

So do Not Fight in War

Use Peace instead

Do not believe me

Just believe the dead

Believe the dead