Trenches Lyrics

I was born in the trenches

Lived in a war zone

Coming back to my senses

To a place I want to call home

I struggle to look back and reflect

Got to pay those years their respect

Sometimes it's easier to neglect

Sorry for being so direct

Born and bred in the trenches

I was raised in the trenches

So I'll rise from the trenches tonight

Born and bred in the trenches

I was raised in the trenches

So I'll rise from the trenches and fight

Fight, fight the good fight

Rise, rise to the highest heights

The soundtrack of cries and screams

Just put my head down to hide

How they stole all my dreams

Too tough now to go and cry

Still dream up at the stars

Many broken guitars

My head full like memoirs

This journey, it's ours

This journey, it's ours

Lived in Boston, New York, Detroit, and Toronto

Lived in Baltimore, New Jersey, then Chicago

Journey be like 42

Who'm I telling this story to

May not be Japan '04

But this still goes for

Me, don't you see,

He said don't eat from the tree

But I feel no chemistry

Struggled with my identity

Jonah and the whale

Not just a bible tale

It's a story of mine, 2009

Waiting for the stars align

It was the snakes plot

Look at what this pain caused

Trying to escape G-d

The summers down in Cape Cod

Toronto filled me with sfeikus

In that sense, worse than Vegas

But, I will continue to wonder

My faith will grow stronger

They tell me it's just a mood

But I live in attitude

They throw at me platitude

Longer than the latitude

Grander than the gratitude

Take me to the magnitude

I know it's  an uphill battle

But I'll fight for what does matter

I know it's a time of war

But skyscrapers don't look that big no more

Oh oh oh oh min ha'meitzar karasi Kah

Oh oh oh anani ba'merchav Kah

Born and bred in the trenches

I was raised in the trenches

So I'll rise from the trenches tonight

Born and bred in the trenches

I was raised in the trenches

So I'll rise from the trenches and fight

Fight, fight the good fight

Rise, rise to the highest heights

Born and bred in the trenches

I was raised in the trenches

So I'll rise from the trenches tonight

Born and bred in the trenches

I was raised in the trenches

So I'll rise from the trenches to the highest heights

Signed, Shloimeh from the trenches