Blindfolds Aside

[Verse 1]

We woke up as men, but tonight

Tonight we'll sleep as killers

As we break the cryptic morning

With a bullet and a prayer

The steel never seemed so cold and agile

And a life never seemed less vital and fragile

[Verse 2]

With a heart that's beating

Louder than my own

I watch a girl they call Kezia

I watch a woman that I know

My hope and my own future, blindfolded (To atone)

[Chorus]

To atone for a sin I didn't care for

But a sin that paid my debts

A sin that fed my children

That burned my smiles and cigarettes

[Bridge]

And no one ever

Said that hope would be so beautiful

And no one ever

Said I'd have to pull the trigger, on her

[Verse 3]

I can't even still her trembling hands

That were locked up by the dutiful

And the obligated

[Instrumental]

[Verse 4]

Five soldiers forever sedated

With the "No one's responsible"

Pathological drama of our

Social justice dribble, dribble, dribble

[Verse 5]

Her tiny steps tell lies

About the choice I have to make

(Resurrect a static lifetime

Starve to death my own mistakes)

[Verse 6]

Pull the screaming trigger

And watch your carcass bleed me dry

Or drop the gun and try to shake away

The blindfold from your eyes?

[Refrain]

Drop the gun (Pull)

Drop the gun (The)

Drop the gun (Trigger)

Drop the gun!

[Chorus]

Sin I didn't care for

But a sin that paid my debts

A sin that fed my children

And burned my smiles and cigarettes

Sin I didn't care for

But a sin that paid my debts

A sin that fed my children

That burned my smiles and cigarettes