[Intro]
Ash in my teeth
Iron in my lungs
Sirens gone silent
I don’t trust the hush
[Verse 1]
Boot prints
Burned into the gravel
Sandbags slumped
Like they finally gave up
Names carved
In a busted metal helmet
Half‑buried
By the sleepless dust
I still flinch
At a car door slamming
See flares
In a flicker of a lamp
Count scars
On the walls of the bunker
Tracing every line
Like a map out of hell
They told us
Hold the line or vanish
We held it
Till our fingers bled raw
Now the sky
Looks naked and harmless
And that
Is the strangest thing I saw
[Chorus]
It’s over
It’s over
We outlived the fire
We ran out of targets
We buried the choir
Raise up your hands
No rifle
No wire
The war finally ended
But what did it retire?
(hey!)
It’s over
It’s over
Scream it till it’s tired
The war finally ended
We crawl out of the pyre
[Verse 2]
Field of
Twisted metal flowers
Tank tracks
Filled with weeds and glass
Watchtowers
Cracking at the ankles
Rust veins
Creeping up the mast
Letters
Stuffed in a pocket
Sweat‑stained
Streaked with old rain
I read them
Like a book of ghosts
Every “come home soon”
Now a question in my brain
We learned
Every shade of terror
Every way
A heartbeat can stall
Now children
Paint on the blast wall
Turning craters
Into games of ball
I taste
Cordite in the coffee
Hear prayers
In the squeal of a brake
Peace feels
Like a bad imposter
Like a stranger
Wearing my face
[Chorus]
It’s over
It’s over
We outlived the fire
We ran out of targets
We buried the choir
Raise up your hands
No rifle
No wire
The war finally ended
But what did it retire?
(oh!)
It’s over
It’s over
Carve it in the air
The war finally ended
But the battle’s in repair
[Breakdown]
[Drums drop to half‑time
Guitars lurch and stagger]
I hear marching
In the quiet
(too loud)
I hear shouting
In the lull
(so proud)
I feel crosshairs
On my back
Right now
But it’s only
It’s only
My own
Pulse
[Gang shouts
Call‑and‑response]
NO MORE ORDERS
(no more graves)
NO MORE FLAGS
(we’re not slaves)
NO MORE HERO
MASKS TO WEAR
JUST THESE SHAKING
HANDS WE SHARE
[Verse 3]
Morning
Crawls under the shutters
First sun
I’ve seen in my sleep
I wake
To the clink of dishes
Not shells
Chewing through the street
Neighbors
Drag out broken furniture
Build tables
From the splintered frames
We sit
Where the checkpoints once were
Passing bread
Across the old lanes
Someone
Starts humming an anthem
Stops short
Lets the last note fall
We don’t need
Any marching music
Just the sound
Of a late‑night call
I plant
My shovel in the garden
Turn soil
That once hid steel
If anything
Is worth defending
It’s the right
To finally feel
[Chorus]
It’s over
It’s over
We outlived the fire
We ran out of targets
We buried the choir
Raise up your hands
No rifle
No wire
The war finally ended
Let the silence lift higher
(yeah!)
It’s over
It’s over
Say it till it’s true
The war finally ended
Now what do we do?
[Outro]
[Instruments thin
Toms rumble under a low chant]
It’s over… over…
(whispered) over… over…
One breath
Then another
One step
From the wire
The war finally ended
We walk
Out of the fire