[Intro]
Boots on bone
Smoke in lung
Skyline split
War drums sung
Steel in teeth
Ash on tongue
Same old prayer
Spat in blood
[Verse 1]
We were born in the shadow of sirens
Cut our teeth on the ruin of flags
Every promise was wrapped in barbed wire
Every idol was built over mass graves
Call it duty
Call it kingdom
Call it faith
Just a new name carved on the same old blade
Every map is a hunger with borders
Every border a throat we invade
We raise our young like loaded weapons
Teach them enemies before we teach them names
Hand them tales soaked red with glory
Hide the mothers kneeling in the rain
And the generals feast off the numbers
Chart the dead like lines on a graph
But the ink runs black into rivers
Where the helmets rust under the chaff
[Chorus]
This war will never end
It just changes hands again
New mask on the same old terror
New hymn for the same old men
This war will never end
It just crawls beneath our skin
We lay our guns in the ground
Then we sharpen our tongues
And we start it again (again, again)
[Verse 2]
See the banners burn
See the colors fade
Till it’s just one gray over broken stone
We forget why we started swinging
Only know we can’t go home
Brother
I don’t know your language
But I know the crack of your bones
I can read the fear in your pupils
Like scripture cut into stone
They said sacrifice is sacred
Till they ran out of other sons
Now the rich send screens and slogans
While the poor still carry the guns
Every screen a sermon of vengeance
Every feed a feeding of rage
We scroll
Reload
Repeat it
Chain ourselves to a digital cage
We pray to saints made of bullets
Cathedrals built from shell
Choirs of drones in the distance
Sing us lullabies of hell
[Chorus]
This war will never end
It just changes hands again
New mask on the same old terror
New hymn for the same old men
This war will never end
It just crawls beneath our skin
We lay our guns in the ground
Then we sharpen our tongues
And we start it again (again, again)
[Breakdown]
[Halftime
Guitars drop to chugs
Drums stagger and crush]
March
Left
Right
Left
Right
Grind your teeth till they crack in your skull
March
Head down
Head down
Kiss the barrel
Call it “under control”
(HEY) Who taught you
To kneel so low?
(HEY) Whose name
Do you bleed for?
Fists in chains
Masks on graves
Same command
New uniforms
[All voices
Chant]
We are the children of unburied hate
We inherit the trigger
Inherit the weight
We are the echo that never decays
We are the war that never goes away
[Verse 3]
There’s a field where the helmets are sleeping
Grass grown over the bones of the young
Wind recites all the names they silenced
Till the taste of iron coats your tongue
On a hill stands a stone to the fallen
Pigeons stain what the sculptors praise
Underneath
In the crawl-space tunnels
Fresh recruits rehearse the same old plays
We toast peace at a polished table
Ink dries black on another pact
Camera flashes
Hands are shaking
Back rooms sharpen the next attack
There’s a child in the smoke of a village
Eyes too old for a face that small
In those pupils a distant future
Where he learns to answer every call
He will say
“I will never become them”
He will swear
“I will bury their guns”
Then a siren splits the horizon
And the vow turns into a drum
[Chorus]
This war will never end
It just changes hands again
New mask on the same old terror
New hymn for the same old men
This war will never end
It just crawls beneath our skin
We lay our guns in the ground
Then we sharpen our tongues
And we start it again (again, again)
[Outro]
[Tempo drags
Guitars ring
Drums slow to stom