We had so much more to see
With the wings of a Valkyrie
I soar above the casualties of war
The casualties of war
This all looks so familiar
In my past life I've been down this road before
In my past life I've been down this road before
Mangled remains,
bloodstains in the pouring rain I hear
AKs in the distance on the desert plain
Jet fighters overhead dropping daisy cutters
Lord forgive atrocities committed by my brothers
I don't belong here,
I'm dying to go home And hug my family but I'm stuck in this war zone
I heard Obama passed a bill for the go-back My
second tour of Afghanistan from touring Iraq
Last week Private Saunders Humvee hit by an RPG Now he's an amputee,
body burning third degree
He wrote to me and wished that I was first
to reach the scene To take my service pistol,
put him out his misery
He's in the States now but looks like something out of thriller
Has prosthetics and he's strung out all for painkillers
An alcoholic now from paying service to his country
And all he getting from the government 600 monthly
Flings down from Valkyrie I soar above the casualties of war The
casualties of war This all looks so familiar In my past life I've been
down this road before In my past life I've been down this road before
A single shot during the night a soldier takes his
life Making a widow of his wife a selfie sacrifice
They say that suicide's a one-way ticket straight to hell But if
you've seen the things we've done you say it's parallel The
guilt of killing innocents is such a heavy burden There are people
just like you and me the news calls them insurgents It all occurred
during the raids somewhere inside Fallujah A house believed
to hold an Al-Qaeda lieutenant usurped Deployed a flash grenade
but it exploded prematurely Spooking a troop they opened fire
what came next was gory A mother runs out quite bewildered with
her child in bosom Nearly beheaded shredded by the bullets put into
him She runs up to the soldier hands over her child's remains
And ever since that afternoon he never been the same
Recurring memories eating him up alive inside
Silence the screams inside his mind committing suicide
With the wings of a Valkyrie I soar above the casualties
of war The casualties of war This all looks so
familiar In my past life I've been down this road before
In my past life I've been down this road before
There's a war going on outside you can't escape from During the
night until the sunrise and the day come They're killing off our civil
liberties and nation The dream of freedom is facing annihilation
The battle taking place inside the minds of you and I Don't believe
what's on the news it's all a putrid lie The war is ranging on it's
coming down or do or die To choose this side is suicide but I'll
let you decide And life is guaranteed and no one's getting out alive
Glory again a state of mind not I will survive
It's all hypocrisy what we call in democracy
We out there for the oil gold and for the poppy seed
We're so busy and worrying about what the world needs
That we're collapsing from within because of hostile greed
Apocalyptic prophecies afflicting you and me And
the only force that can stop it is the G.O.D.
With the wings of a Valkyrie I soar above the casualties of war
The casualties of war
This all looks so familiar In my past
life I've been down this road before
In my past life I've been down this road before