Story Behind The Song

Watching a documentary on the drafting, and enlistment for the Iraq war, and the damage and death that some of the soldiers encountered and became, as well as the mental toll even the non injured soldiers.

Song Description

A song from the viewpoint of a young man sent off to war, and his feelings about what might happen...

Lyrics

War, pt. 2 Lyrics

Verse 1

So it?s been said
There?s trouble up ahead
And I can?t decide
If it?s worth being dead

We fight these wars
To the deadly end
And I can?t stand
What is happening

Chorus


And I don?t want to be the one
Please don?t let me die today
I just wanna see the sun, one more day
Please don?t let me die, today

Verse 2

I dig my hands
Into the earth
And ask the lord
What the world is worth

I don?t want to fall down
And die today
But I don?t know if I
Can change my fate

Chorus (1x)

Breakdown

Verse 3

Now I can see
Where hope begins and it ends
I will never feel again
Like I did back then

I was just a young boy
With his head in the clouds
Now I?m just a young man
Buried in the ground

Chorus (2x)