"Not Your War"

Boots in the dirt, rifle in hand

Another young soldier in a foreign land

You send us to fight, but you don’t know the cost

The blood on this ground, the brothers we’ve lost

You sit in your towers, safe and high

While we bleed out underneath the sky

You make the speeches, we take the fall

But I won’t be your pawn at all

This ain’t your war, I’m not your game

You play with lives, but we feel the pain

We fight, we die, while you stand tall

But I won’t be a soldier for your lies no more

You talk about freedom, you talk about pride

But you don’t see the fear in a mother’s eyes

A flag on a casket, a name on a stone

While you shake hands and send more sons alone

You draft the orders, we pay the price

Another young hero, another rolled dice

But I’ve seen the truth, I’ve heard the cries

And I won’t march under your disguise

This ain’t your war, I’m not your game

You play with lives, but we feel the pain

We fight, we die, while you stand tall

But I won’t be a soldier for your lies no more

I stand for my brothers, I stand for my land

But I won’t die for the greed in your hands

You send us to battle, but never to peace

I’m done being used, this war has to cease

This ain’t your war, I’m not your game

You play with lives, but we feel the pain

We fight, we die, while you stand tall

But I won’t be a soldier for your lies no more

The war’s not ours, we see it clear

We’re done with the blood, we’re done with the fear

You built the fire, but we’ll walk away

No more will we fight for the games that you play