Rain

Caught in the showers small all your life

Then suddenly you're so large

There used to be a time when children went off to war

Never to come home

Only returning were the ghosts of hate

With blood dripping down their necks like the winter rain

Half man half dead half sick half lost to the enemies

All that they remember is all the hardtimes from before

Bullets ring out and make a song of their own

Boom bang you're dead try to come back again

The clouds turn black and the sky to ash

As the winds pick up the thoughts come back

Standing in a jungle, a swamp, a dessert, a mountain

Praying that you would make it back

Now wondering why you even thought that

Killing one after the other what's the worth of it all

Money, cars, things the civil man thinks he needs

It's all worth nothing now that I've tasted death

Battles play out in my ears as I relive the screams of dying men

Hell came out of the ground on those days

And we stared into the eyes of going under til the end of time

Shot outside and now grown men begin to cry out

Some wounds just won't heal and you can never leave the battlefield

Holding my tongue as so I can never go back

Never speaking of the things that I've seen

I don't want you to see the things that I once did

One life went in and another come out

After they shaved my head and I strapped my boots on

The warrior in me came out and the boy in me went to sleep

Now as I lay here in a nightmare of a dream

I think back to how the rain came down full of misery

How it washed away the blood and gore

And placed them in here, right inside my mind