A Farewell to Arms

[Verse 1]

Can you hear their cries?

Nowhere can the children run to hide

Crimson rivers

Flow down hills

Atone our ills

And woe to all her songs of love

[Refrain]

A farewell to arms

[Verse 2]

Mutilated lives

Blackening as coffin line the sides

Filled with fathers

Who has won?

When only sons

Hold their grieving heads and mourn

[Refrain]

A farewell to arms

[Verse 3]

Always, our souls entwine

Erase this vast divide

Deaf ears, our voices rest

Tyrant, this is protest

[Pre-Chorus 1]

Who has won?

Yes, who has won?

[Chorus]

I'll wave this flag of white

So the venged see the light

We'll pay for closed eyes

With our genocide

[Verse 4]

Piercing the masquerade

March to the death parade

Trade not humanity

For pearls of our slavery

[Bridge 1]

In the depth of mind

The heart will find

The truth of our leader

We'll try the facts

So through the cracks

May fall the lying cheater

[Pre-Chorus 2]

Who has won when

We're all dead?

[Chorus]

I'll wave this flag of white

So the venged see the light

We'll pay for closed eyes

With our genocide

[Bridge 2]

So, is this how we live?

Or is this how we die?

[Verse 5]

Black blood dripping

From platinum fangs

Rich blood flees

While our poverty hangs

[Verse 6]

Shepherds, they herd

The mindless trance

As the flock follows the puppet's dance

In a fatal romance!

[Guitar Solo: Phil Demmel]

[Verse 7]

All that they needed

Was a pretext, war's next

Heads to the chopping blocks

And our necks are next

For those who died

Who fought for our rights

Whose children, now slaves

They're turning in their graves

[Verse 8]

War hawks and senators

They sit tight, so trite

Never their sons will know

What it's like to fight

Soldiers are dead

And children have bled

And the silence is numb

What have we become?

[Bridge 3]

What have we become?!

What have we become?!

What have we become?!

God save us!

[Outro]

A farewell to arms