Battle Graduate Lyrics

Try the best strategy of which you can think

In battleship you want the ships to sink

But only if you feel the need to win

Care to take the simulator for a spin against me?

When I was a little boy

I used to play with my brother Peter

'Til I lashed out in retaliation

And the military gave me some new toys

I'm thirteen years old with nothing to prove

A slave to the eye in the sky

And as far as I can realize

A killer's unconscious desire

Breathing deeply

I lean forward in the chair

I think I've won this fight before

Cause I've internalized the art of war

Monsters tell me it's a victory

Nothing left as far as the eye can see

Insane child tries to break

The rules to Ender's game

Only I understand the hive mind

I command the buggers to die

Were you surprised I let them fool me?

In guilt for the rest of my life

My compassion is your demise

And when you feel that you can't keep on fighting any longer

You can always find a way to end the fight

The general calls the shot alone

When you have the chance to destroy the alien's home

When you make the order

You can never be a kid again

I'm thirteen years old with nothing to do

But blast the buggers out of the sky

The genocide of my humanity

But the hand of God is mine

Only I can feel the strings attached

I got the weight of the world on my back

If I had known would I have still attacked?

I got a thousand years to contemplate that fact

Nobody will ever help you