Let's Face the Fire

from Scattered Resistance v2 - Inversion Promised by Wetdryvac's Lair

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Let's Face the Fire
February 20, 1991

get out the lead
cries your god of war
the fire is spreading and what shall you do?

as a child at home in these broken homes
I found this casing in the yard, pretty, silver
thinking a gift I picked it up with both hands
present for my parents, tired, working-
the fireball scattered me in pieces
I never knew what I had done

get out the lead
we must face the fire
so commands your god of war-
well I faced the fire and see here, see here
to bring my mother this piece of fancy scrap
in the end I found myself dead
no reason for placing me up in the sky
I wasn't the one who'd been killing people
simply followed a shine and moved away

and where are all the little children
playing in mine fields at their games of cleaning
and where are all the bloody soldiers
what placed in my drive this excrement of hell?

I suppose looking back I shouldn't fault them
doing their jobs they were, duty bound
but as I watched the planes fly over
pouring out their smoke
I knew not which were on my side

I know they meant nothing for me
that they'd sorrow my passing if the knew-
but mother's in tears and there's blood all down the drive
unthinking actions and thinking duty may well be blind
like love and forgiveness hardest, hardest of all

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from Scattered Resistance v2 - Inversion Promised, released September 27, 2012

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