Empty soulless eyes look back in the mirror
How do I tell them where it all went wrong
How do I tell myself the truth
I've fell into the system
I've given up the ghost
The few they have there puppet
The master class
My host

I used to own the world outright
My dreams became my life
All gone ,I'm *******
All cleaned you see
The in has gone all out

For now I live my life
This way
A martyr to the throne
All wasted on the beer of life
The washed away
Alone

The great war
Wasn't that great
9 million soldiers killed
20 million wound
Yet still these medals of courage stand tall
In my home
Watched everyday
loved and cared for
for they lived so that I may live

That great war
Wasn't so great
Where a boy aged just 12 fought for his land
Gave his present for our future
A stand we should so bow
For our shame of today

Our shame of today
Where money leads the way
Yet doesn't exist
Where profit before humanity
Rules the world
My eyes see the news
They bleed in disbelieve as the shells pour down
As ears weep to the horrors of a child's cry

The great war
Wasn't that great
Only the poppies of hope
Do stir my wishes
Of a change
Of a world without fear
A world where our leaders
Change
So the great war....
Was it that great.. after all?

Feel my head splitting sidewards
My 3am in full
A mind buzz all be ready
For a finger
Oh the thrill  

I want the words to be so magical
Want the world
To stop
Be still
Shhhhh...

So let me be the silent
Let sleep go be my ****
All stop I'm weak
I'm fading fast
I want to swim
This air
And still ..

I want to ...
I want to be the norm
I want to be the lazy
I want to sleep for hours end
I want .....

I'm fed up with my eyes awake
The pain they see all hurts  
All told I'm sparkled
Lights all quiet  
The night
It is
It's curse

Amongst us walk the ghosts of our past
Silent screams that shout and hollow
"we died for you"

I look around and bow my head in shame
For I have let their giving be worthless
I have failed

They lost
So that we may have a future
A better place so that us siblings
Can live
Love
Grasp for life
Fade less hate

See the saying D Day is still used today
Yet how many think back to the lives lost
Our loss
Our granddad's
Our family
Their lives

My failure is mirrored in the failure of the world
Religion after religion
Gun against gun
Life fighting life

One day I hope words will be the healer
Language our fighters
And soldiers our builders

One day
Will
We
Have a better world

One day!!

When I wake
Breath
Stare out into the dark
I wonder

I wonder what I'll see who I'll meet and what lasting mark will I make today On this earth
Will I paint like Picasso
Will I draw like Leonardo  
Will I sing a song like Pavarotti  

Then I sigh
What is my life print
What is my way
Will I be remembered
Or fade away

Am I a stone for the viewing
Is this my future
A dancing stone
Full of posies
Waiting for the wedding day child  

From a family lost
A faded etch
Seeks my await  
I fear for my life print
I fear for that day

Then I wonder  
That day is not now
My life is not yet complete

My ink is not yet empty
Nor the paper dry
Or the stone yet cut
For I breath in the earth
I look up to the sky
And I sing to the heavens
I'm me
I'm alive

Numb in my fingers so follows
My mind
All lost in my dreams
All lost to the sky

So kiss me to hold me
Please give me the eye
I need you to love me
No reasons nor why

For in that feeling I love you
Sends crazy to me
I want all your loving
I want to be free