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Can't believe I will live forever

As I try to pretend

Dead and gone are my kin and I know

That I will follow suit

Feel no pain but I won't go on

Tell me now what's going on

They all try to control our thinking

They sway the purple heart

When we're gone

No such piece of metal

Will ease our families' pain

(It's always been like that. The ones declaring war

Are not the ones who fight, are not the ones who suffer,

are not the ones who die. They are blind)

Heroes we will be, that's what they tell us

I won't believe their propaganda

For a higher goal we're used like pawns

We are the ones, ohh, ohh

Kill for life

No time to think it over

Or you're the next in line

Constant fear, but no chance to show it

No time for your last prayer

We all fight for a higher goal

What it is no one's ever told

Left behind all the former heroes

No sign of thankfulness

Can't forget what I had to witness

I am a different man

(What we're fighting for?

Honour, glory, our country, our families?

In the end, we are alone.

Left alone with what we have witnessed and done)

Heroes we will be, that's what they tell us

I won't believe their propaganda

For a higher goal we're used like pawns

We are the ones, ohh, ohh

(We will be forgotten, our bodies are rotting)

Offering our sons

Hoping that they'll make us proud

(Heroes in advance, it all make so no sense)

Years spent in pain

Praying to see them again

No one understands what we're going through

But everyone judges what our sons do

Better serve our country than end up in the gutter

They say and that's what they will do