No Heroes Here Lyrics

The battlefield is empty, sun setting down

No priests left to bless this land, no soldiers to stand their ground

The city walls that once stood now, crumble like glass

The poets all left long ago through that last mountain pass, so

Freight train, keep on pulling me farther

Past all these places I'm leaving behind

And airplane, keep on taking me higher

Above these battles I've left buried in time

And if you ask me why I'm leaving

All these things that I once held dear

Well don't you realize, oh my darling

There ain't no heroes here

I knelt by the trench line, dug my hands into the mud

Pulled out an ancient spear that our fathers drenched in blood

And walked past the gallows rotting down in time

Their stains are what remains of our everlasting crimes, so

Freight train, keep on pulling me farther

Past all these places I'm leaving behind

And airplane, keep on taking me higher

Above these battles I've left buried in time

And if you ask me why I'm leaving

All these things that I once held dear

Well don't you realize, oh my darling

There ain't no heroes here

I looked from the debris, saw you standing there

The sun's rays bouncing through the haze off your auburn crimson hair

You dusted off my should, took me by the hand

Now show me there's more to see than these open wounds of man, and

Freight train, keep on pulling us farther

Past all these places I'm leaving behind

And airplane, keep on taking us higher

Above these battles I've left buried in time

And if you ask me why I'm leaving

All these things that I once held dear

Well don't you realize, oh my darling

There ain't no heroes here