My body wakes at dawn

Always obeys the first alarm

I do what I’m told these days

Automize to eliminate the doubt

Rehearse the purpose they can't live without

This is the kind of gig that pays

Nobody’s in charge or wants the job

We can’t elect a new god

While still hauling biblical names

World War pain

They teach us to be sane

When I train my sights on you

It’s me being free

World War pain

What’s your favorite game?

If you shoot me through the forehead

Would you wonder what I dreamed?

We’re each other’s targets tonight

Only one will see the sunlight

Seem to bless his lover’s eyes

Soldiers don't question null

Our local car was totally full

Of political hacks parroting lies

Do you also have empty night streets?

Where distant traffic hums sweet relief

From the vengeance born in our minds

World War pain

Has nothing to do with shame

That’s for civilian life, where it is

Essential to forgive

World War pain

Did you cauterize with flame?

I wasted a second wondering

If we’d let each other live