[Verse 1]
Mud in my teeth
Metal in my mouth
Orders in my ear
"Target in the south"
I raise the sight
Eyes blurred
Still see
Tiny fingers on the trigger
Pointed back at me
[Pre-Chorus]
Their helmets hang
Like borrowed heads
Names too small
For dog tag chains
I choke it down
Swallow sand and shame
They call it duty
I just taste the blame
[Chorus]
I am the trigger man
Pulling on a loaded lie
They put the guns in children’s hands
Then tell me which ones die
This is a dead god’s plan
Written in a leader’s spit
I see their faces when I sleep
And I can’t live with it
[Verse 2]
Little boots in cratered streets
Lined up
Shaking
Out of beat
Commander grins
"they’d kill you too"
Like that forgives what I must do
His pen drew borders in the dust
My bullets sign them in their blood
War is a riddle told by ghosts
And I’m the answer they love most
[Pre-Chorus]
Their voices crack
As rifles kick
They scream in tongues
It all sounds sick
I feel my finger start to freeze
But someone else decides for me
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
One squeeze
One breath
I trade their future
For my next step
They fall
I fall
Hands still shaking
Long after the call
[growled]
No flag to wash this stain
No rank to mask this pain
If hell is real it learned my name
The day I played their game
[Chorus]