Blood In My Veins

Can you hear those birds sing?

Means we're closer to shore

Means we're closer to home

Further from love and war

Further from what made sense

What we were born to do

What kept the blood in our veins

Keep my veins thin with booze

Kept my hand on my gun

And my gun by my side

Kept the moon in my thoughts

With the sun in my eyes

Kept my head hanging long

Kept my gun by my side

My brother's name in my head

And the tears from my eyes

Kept the blood in my veins

Kept the blood in my veins

Brother's name in my head

Kept the blood in my veins

I've been praying for death

For me and my friends

So we'd never wake up

To our lovers again

Because every lover had lied

When they said we'd be fine

When they said in good faith

They would sleep alone every night

Hope to come home in one piece with our boys by our side

Now we're ragged and the torn life the flags that we fly

Like the ones we lay down

On a coffin so clean

See those eyes staring back where the boys used to be

The boys we used to be

Kept the blood in my veins

(I re-read the postcards you sent, wish the truth was a lie)

Kept the blood in my veins

(The waves on the hull, throw your words off the side)

Brother's name in my head

(The slip takes the deed, dying back home)

And the blood in my veins

(I want to sing to the depths, with the letters you wrote)

Kept the blood in my veins

Kept the blood in my veins

Brother's name in my head

And the blood in my veins

Kept the blood in my veins