Waving Flags

(Intro – slow, ominous riff)

Pain rips and tears what’s left inside

No room for healing

Only ruin remain

(Verse 1)

Pain rips and tears whatever’s left in me

Leaves no space for healing to survive

Just destruction carved in memory

No cure strong enough to quiet the knife

Dark reflections claw the mind

Self-doubt speaks in sharpened threats

Every breath another fight

With the parts of me I haven’t killed yet

(Pre-Chorus)

The struggle to stay in the light

Is a war I’m losing control

Truth comes back in fragments

While the demon tightens its hold

(Chorus)

We fight to take our lives back

But victory fades to defeat

Controlling the greed and depression

That keeps sinking its teeth in me

We fight to take our lives back

But the past won’t let me forget

Good memories start erasing

As the darkness places its bets

(Verse 2)

Minor blemishes pass as truth

Set aside just to survive

Let the inner demon rule the room

Fragile minds don’t make it out alive

Absent control holds the key

To a happiness we never found

We march through wars inside our heads

Just to burn everything to the ground

(Pre-Chorus 2)

I never learned how to lead myself

I only followed the fall

Defeat became a state of mind

And pity built these walls

(Chorus)

We fight to take our lives back

But victory fades to defeat

Corruption sets the truth on fire

While it laughs at our beliefs

We fight to take our lives back

But the damage is already done

Greed and depression keep bleeding through

Everything we’ve become

(Breakdown (slow → crushing)

Victory is overrated

Shattered by corrupted hands

Truth burns with the rest of us

In the ashes of mankind

Can you carry the meaning of life

When the weight starts to crack your spine?

Can you face the struggle

Without losing your mind?

(chug chug — pause)

WITHOUT

LOSING

YOUR

MIND

(Bridge (half-time, bleak)

Moments of truth are forged in choice

Tested souls, untamed and worn

Some survive, some disappear

Some are never reborn

We fought every battle given

Never once waved the white

But this time our strength is gone

And we surrender to the night

(Final Chorus (bigger, slower)

We waved our flags

Yielded the fight

Lost what mattered

Somewhere in the night

We waved our flags

Gave up control

Never knowing what mattered

To save our souls

(Outro (spoken or screamed)

We gave up

Without knowing

What was worth saving