Killing lyrics

A life learned for its prevervation

A community bound by rules

There comes a day a war ignites

With it, the obligation to go

Trained to obey orders unhesitantly

Not to let down buddies depending

Kept close, real close, a family

Us verses all of them 'til the end

Fear mixed with duty breed death

Killing is a distasteful necessity

Those that love it, never return

Those that abhor it, never leave

Men who never met you shooting

They kill without bias or reason

Difference shouldn't mark a man

The good and evil undistinguished

Then comes the day to die or detach

The dead find peace forced upon them

Going back to a different world naive

That never again will be the same

The exhileration of so surviving

Directly after violent engagements

Gives way to the guilt of being

When others have been decimated

Never to see those comrades again

Never to relive the pain of returning

Two worlds apart at times are one

Moments met zooming back there

Knife's edge of emotion ever teetering

Triggered by similar senses borne

Choked down deep, and kept away

Always near, plague of slumber

Life goes on and family too

Thoughts of deprivation haunting

All they lost, all that was taken

Knowing men still want to kill

In later years hoping for renewal

Wonderment of final judgment

Regrouping with those fallen

Time alone veils those wounds