Echoes of War - Requiem

Forced to suicide mission

Chosen for sacrifice

Expendable human resource

Food for powder all these lives

Collateral mortal waste

On altars of greed

Apathy pervades our culture

Devoting our own seed… strike…

Mental wrecks thrown to the fire

Spreading madness internally

Families condemned to suffer

No cure can be achieved

Coming home with addiction issues

There is more than meets the eye

Refused to regain their lives

Upon their return from strife

Echoes of war — cannons fall silent

Souls lost into nevermore

Going off to foreign countries

At the behest of others that decide

Among these returning veterans

Instances of suicide

Overrun by mauling tank tracks

Oncoming storm

Roaring cannons now fall silent

Remembrance our ultimate downfall

Post-traumatic stress disorder

Aftermath of battlefield horrors

Bringing along multiple issues

No more chance to subdue

Echoes of war — cannons fall silent

Souls lost into nevermore

Echoes of war — cannons fall silent

Souls lost into nevermore

Post-traumatic stress disorder

Aftermath of battlefield horrors… retreat…

Suicide and collective killing

Implied by twisted minds

Murder, rape and assault

Are just the prevalent crimes

Flaps of skin in barbwire

Forever burned in memories

Suffering screams — chased by nightmares

Seeds of hate in their bloodstreams

Front line trauma — Burning from inside

Front line trauma — Burning from inside

Echoes — battle — machine gun fire

Attack — retreat — inside the wire

Front line trauma — Burials on battlegrounds

Burning from inside — -Still the lament sounds