[Verse 1]
Easy Street dust in my teeth
Market Street sweat in my sleeves
Route Michigan
Long line of steel
Gun trucks humming
I white-knuckle the wheel
Ramadi dawn
Sand in my grin
Young and dumb
Light Infantrymen
Names on helmets
Ink on our wrists
Write home later
If we exist
[Chorus]
Green eyes killers in the blackout
Night vision glow
World all washed out
Every shadow got a secret
Every rooftop breathes
If you weren’t there
You wouldn’t believe
Green eyes killers in the silence
Praying soft
Moving hard through the violence
We ain’t heroes
We ain’t saints
Just staying alive under all that weight
[Verse 2]
M240 Bravo sings on the line
Brass raining down in a crooked shine
Fifty cal thunder from the lead truck’s nest
Kick to the shoulder
Boot on my chest
Raid house doors like a movie scene
But there’s kids on couches
Dishes in the sink
Boot prints smudge on a family floor
We leave with questions we can’t ignore
[Chorus]
Green eyes killers in the blackout
Night vision glow
World all washed out
Every shadow got a secret
Every rooftop breathes
If you weren’t there
You wouldn’t believe
Green eyes killers in the silence
Praying soft
Moving hard through the violence
We ain’t heroes
We ain’t saints
Just staying alive under all that weight
[Bridge]
Twenty-two palms on a bar top back home (hey)
Laugh too loud
But we’re never alone
See that road in the bottom of the glass
Hear that fifty in the fireworks crash
[Chorus]
Green eyes killers in the blackout
Night vision glow
World all washed out
Every shadow got a secret
Every rooftop breathes
If you weren’t there
You wouldn’t believe
Green eyes killers in the silence
Praying soft
Moving hard through the violence
We ain’t heroes
We ain’t saints
Just staying alive under all that weight