War-Front Property Lyrics

The fear, it grips these tendons

Blood runs cold within these veins

I look out on a damaged world

As I begin my day

I cannot shake this worry

As my children all awake

To the rat-tat-tat of gunfire

From a distance not so great

An echo of community

Binds the few of us who stayed

The ones with no place left to go

Or the means to get away

The choice was never mine to make

But I don't want to live this way

The shelling continues through the night

And again all through the day

This is the world today

A quarter turn of Earth away

Under the same sky built

From a patchwork of gray

A life most will never see

Strength, endurance, and tenacity

Are required terms to get a lease

For living in a war-front property

Meanwhile

Safety seems so far away

But it's at safe distance that

Bureaucratic choices are made

It seems ignorance is their defense

Protracted by them at our expense

Life is a knife and it cuts both ways

Deep down I wonder if it'll ever change

This is the world today

A quarter turn of Earth away

Under the same sky built

From a patchwork of gray

A life most will never see

Strength, endurance, and tenacity

Are the required terms to get a lease

For living in a war-front property