M.I.A.
Album: City of Evil
Release Date: 6/7/05
Label: Warner Bros.
Staring at the carnage
Praying that the sun would never rise
Living another day in disguise
These feelings can't be right
Lend me your courage to stand up and fight on tonight
Stand up and fight
Now fighting rages on and on
To challenge me
I walk your land but don't belong
Two million soldiers can't be wrong
It's no fun but I've been here before
I'm far from home and I'm fighting your war
Not the way I pictured this
I wanted better things
Some are scared
I shot a mother right in front of her son
Take this from my consciousness
And please erase my dreams
Fight for honor
Pray to God that our side is right
Know we won
Until I make it home to you
I see our mothers filled with tears
Grew up so fast
Memories won't let you cry
Unless I don't return tonight
So many soldiers on the other side
I take their lives so they can't take mine
Scared to make it out alive now
Murder's all I know
Nobody tells me all the reasons we're here
I have my weapon
Another day
But nothing real to show for
Fight for honor
Pray to God that our side is right
Know we won
Until I make it home to you
I see our mothers filled with tears
Grew up so fast
Memories won't let you cry
Unless I don't return tonight
Staring at the carnage
Praying that the sun would never rise
Living another day in disguise
These feelings can't be right
Lend me your courage
Watching the death toll rise
Wondering how I'm alive
Stranger's blood on my hands
There were no silent nights
Watching your brothers all die
To destroy all their plans with no thought of me
No thought of me
Walk the city lonely
Memories that haunt are passing by
A murderer walks your streets tonight
Forgive me for my crimes
Don't forget that I was so young
Fought so scared in the name of God and country
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