What We Left Behind Lyrics

Over the ramparts we will watch and stare

So we can witness the bombs burst in the air

A killing field surrounds our world of view

We oh so noble, foolishly tried and true

Another whistle sounds and the screams commence

A public display of our penitence

The thousand-yard stares the gore and grime

Helpless to shake the disease that grips our minds

Time after time

Trampled fields abandoned hearts are yet another sign

A mother holds a picture desperately

A brother stares with solemn dignity

A father grasps a letter to his chest

Knowing full well his offspring's fate at last

We hear the story told a million ways

To valor and esprit of shining rays

The flower of propagation now enshrined

Amid the chaos and carnage of the frontline

Time after time

Little more than closing notes eulogy undermined

Another rich man's war

With poor men intertwined

The missing dreams and fruitless schemes

Of what we left behind

A generation dead

History's maligned

Our cenotaph last epitaph

Of what we left behind

What we left behind

Another rich man's war

With poor men intertwined

The missing dreams and fruitless schemes

Of what we left behind

A generation dead

History's maligned

Our cenotaph last epitaph

Of what we left behind

What we left behind

What we left behind

What we left behind

What we left behind

What we left behind