They jerk my chain then drag me 'cross the county line
Drop me in a box, vultures circle high
Bayonetts stappled in a field of blood
I'm coming home, for me this war is done
In the blue, the guns of thunder
And the gray lie six feet under

The rise and fall of helmets all along the ridge
It's suicide waiting just across the bridge
Iran so fast until my legs collapsed
I'm coming home, this war won't be my last
In my ear, the guns of thunder
And the dead lie six feet under

the war machines scattered 'long the Western Front
Commanders yellin', "We got 'em on the run"
Bullets piercing holes into a frozen sky
Another war has passed before my closing eyes
I can hear the guns of thunder
As they turn me six feet under

We all take our marks, the gun goes off
The rat race starts
Faster than the speed of light
Victory burns in our eyes
Down through the spiral curves
Crashing hopes and losing nerve
No matter how hard you try
Sometimes you just can't win

We step into the ring, hand on heart,
The lady sings
And in a moment now
A lifetime spent to hear that sound
But when the smoke has cleared
One will stand to hear the cheers
No matter how hard you try
Sometimes you just can't win

Jamming lines, parts to play
Only to be turned away
Crooked skies, empty seas
Black rainbows are chasing me
Wishing I didn't care
Hoping you would find me there
Never say do or die
Sometimes you just might win

Trapped by the scavengers out for a feast, hidden from sight
The threat was so heavy, I was just beyond reach, preparing for the fight
And then out of nowhere you came to my aid, together we escaped
Out of the clutches of catastrophe we would never be the same
You're in my brain

Banded together from that moment on, you were by my side
Lured and conned, cheated and Wronged, we turned a blind eye
You know and I know how wicked and strange this world's always been
It's only a matter of time so they say before we'll give in
You're in my brain

For what lies ahead I've no reason to dread, I don't really care
The circle outside can eat me alive- as long as you are there
Kicks on the line-new avenues home- twilight's on the fade
We can't change or cage the time that remains, the hand is being played
You're in my brain

I hear the broken strings of violins in disrepair
Once where the walking wounded tread there will be nothing there
We can't remember what we tried so hard to forget
So many stumbling blocks, it's what we've come to expect
(chorus) Down, I fear we're going down

I see the warning signs walking on the other side
I feel their fingers going up and down, chills my spine
We are the arrows, our aim's not always straight and true
You'll miss the target if you never learn to follow through
(chorus)

We are the weary, the broken, the sacrificed
Don't trust authority, never wanted their advice
There is no reason, no rhyme, no false pretense
Strength through misfortune never makes any sense
(chorus)

2 am in the morning, must be dreaming
Someone's knocking on my bedroom door
Mystery telephone caller, if it's you,
I ain't messin' 'round with you no more
Then the lights go down, then the shades go down,
Then you go down- leave me on my bended knees

You done played me for a sucker for the last time girl-
I swear you're just a movie star
You just squeeze me and tease me, then please me
And play me like your bass guitar

Then the lights go down, then the shades go down
Then you go down- leave me on my bended knees

Electrify me Frankenstein
Implant those diodes in my mind
Zap me with your lightning bolts
My heart beats through your stethoscope
(chorus) If it's not too late to change
I need to break away

Revive me Dr. Frankenstein
Refit me with some x-ray eyes
I need to see the world once more
Before I got so pissed and bored
(chorus)

Operation Frankenstein
Short my circuits back to life
Shoot some voltage through my veins
Bring me back to life again
(chorus

I was in the wind, so proud, if you could see me now
You were on the wings of time, a victim of the crowd
You and I would never be the ones to scatter 'neath the sky
It would take a change in you to make me realize
(chorus) Baby won't you wait for me

Desperately I'd make the time no one else would take
Desperately I'd search the whys for making those mistakes
Baby I was wrong to leave, I still don't know why
Maybe in the end we'll cease against a broken sky
(chorus)

Everywhere the lanes have changed leading to the dark
Everytime I go from you it just makes things so hard
All I want to say to you somehow in return
Everything we know from life never will get burned
(chorus)

I'm going somewhere I ain't been to before
Closing my eyes and closing the door
Waving goodbye in the dead of the night
Down a highway with nothing in sight
(chorus) Don't know where and I don't know when
I only know I need to see you again

Out of the crowd and out of the game
Puttin' some distance 'tween me and the flame
Just wanna drift 'till'm outa the storm
Something new I ain't tried before
(chorus)

Feel like I've slowly been turned into stone
For all the wrong reasons I can no longer cope
Like a dagger going straight through my heart
I'm not really me , I'm just playing a part
(chorus)

The arrows like rockets flew high in the sky
My life had fallen apart
One of those arrows came down like a sign
It must have been straight through the heart
(chorus) I'm up on a cloud
I'm not coming down if you're not around

Time would stand still as I waited for you
Caring is so hard to bear
I'd ache from the minute you'd leave me alone
I'd watch from the top of the stairs
(chorus)

I still have the rose you left by my side
And the note you pinned on the door
It won't be that long, you'll be back in my arms
It only makes me want you more
(chorus)

Dreams we had that disappeared
Lost along the way
Pursuits we had way back when
Now they just seem gray
Friends that came and went with time
Never to return
Worlds we could not overcome
No longer our concern
(chorus) Where did they go?

Broken hearts, aching pains
Sleepless nights and more
Waiting by the telephone
Standing at the door
Never thought we'd get through that
Somehow we survived
Even in the worst of times
Love kept us alive
(chorus)

Whims that blew our thoughts awry
Things we couldn't change
Feelings we thought couldn't die
Seemed to just get strange
Regrets we had no second chance
Ever to repair
Don't seem so important now
No one really cares
(chorus)

With the hills on fire I heard someone say
If I'd only been there in my younger day
Would the memories still linger like the ones
Someone's building fires just 0 take me higher
(chorus) I wonder, where are you taking me

Did the ones before me also lose their way
Did they feel like prisoners trying to escape
Did they spend their lives searching for the key
Someone's building fences just to stir my senses
(chorus)

Will I be remembered by those I leave behind
Or will I be forgotten when I face the light
I have loved you all more than you could know
But his voice is calling and I have to go
(chorus)