Blindfolds Aside

We woke up as men, but tonight

Tonight, we'll sleep as killers

As we break the cryptic morning

With a bullet and a prayer

The steel never seemed so cold and agile

And a life never seemed less vital and fragile

With a heart that's beating

Louder than my own

I watch a girl they call Kezia

I watch a woman that I know

My hope and my own future

Blindfolded (To atone)

To atone

A sin I didn't care for

But a sin that paid my debts

A sin that fed my children

That burned my smiles and cigarettes

And no one ever said that

Hope would be so beautiful

And no one ever said I'd have to

Pull the trigger on her

I can't even still her trembling hands

That were locked up by the dutiful

And the obligated

Five soldiers forever sedated

With the "No one's responsible"

Pathological drama of our

Social justice dribble, dribble, dribble...

Her tiny steps (To resurrect)

Tell lies about (A static lifetime)

The choice (To starve)

I have (To death)

To make (My own mistakes)

You'll pull the screaming trigger

And watch your carcass bleed me dry

Or drop the gun and try to shake away

Away the blindfold from your eyes?

Drop the gun, drop the gun, drop the gun

Drop the gun!

Sin I didn't care for

But a sin that paid my debts

A sin that fed my children

That burned my smiles and cigarettes

Sin I didn't care for

But a sin that paid my debts

A sin that fed my children

That burned my smiles and cigarettes