Brokenheartland

Staring through the disconnect,

I felt my own inconsequence.

‘Neath the standing army of discontent,

I felt my own inconsequence.

On a waiting train that wouldn’t leave,

I prayed these chords my soul to keep

Tonight, they won’t take me alive

‘Cause there’s a song everyone knows,

And though no one sang a single note,

I can hear it

From the rumbling jungles of our self-defeat

To the sullen barracks where no one (dares to) sleeps.

On the battlefield of broken hearts,

I saw this world fucking torn apart

Just waiting for nothing.

Tonight, they won’t take me alive

‘Cause there’s a song everyone knows,

And though no one sang a single note,

I can hear it

Across the broken heartland,

We’re all coming out

Blasting the sound of the trodden down

And tonight we’re for it,

Fucking verse bridge and chorus.

No one knows who won the wars,

But we know something died.

Sleepless, workless,

Stuck in line.

Giving in for the first time.

We just stopped waiting

For someone to save us.

They tell me we got something to lose.

Like what, to whom?

I know you hear it too.