Ohia's Gone Lyrics

Fire up your engine, cause there ain't no coming back

Behind a smoke screen shield, and the sky is turning black

Fire out your guns and point your rifles into the air

We can pray for peace but only if the bullets land over there

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

Well, I met her before the world found the disease

She changed some, while I was still shaking my knees

Then I turned around and I got myself a band

I tried to tell a story that you wouldn't even understand

I'll hold your camera, you know I've got myself a degree

I'll write your story, show it off for the world to see

And when you grow up, what do you want want want to be

I'll write your story, but I won't do it for free

Once a child is now a man

He sees the eyes of God and the world is in his hand

You think you know it all until you don't know

You think you're running fast, but then it's real slow

We could pray for peace with our rifles in the air

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

She bent down to tie the laces of his shoes

I saw his breath in the cold light, it was blue

Don't beat around the bush if you have something you'd like to say

But she didn't agree with me and so she went her separate way

And all the time I knew I was torn up deep inside

Because we were the same it was a fact I couldn't hide

I'll hold your camera, you know I've got myself a degree

I'll write your story, show it off for the world to see

And when you grow up, what do you want want want to be

I'll write your story, but I won't do it for free