Steel skies,
Follow the path that the crow flies,
Set sail with the sunrise,
Come follow me home.

Iron and steel,
Bullets and blood,
Corpses lying in scarlet mud,
Freefall and slow,
Painful descent,
Spending lives you've already spent,

Feeling the rush,
Feeling no pain,
Now he'll never 'feel' again,
Cutting the flesh,
Breaking the bone,
Always lonely but never alone,

The enemy, brevity,
You'll never see seventy,
Never see twenty five,
Never see your wife,

Your daughter- a toddler,
The freedom you fought for,
The minutes you bought her,
The oven gets hotter,

Your son, in fifth grade,
Catch won't be played,
Never could behave,
How will he be brave?

The tragedy, raggedly,
Tearing a dad from the-
Family he'll never see,
The man he could never be,

Sleep alone, sleep alone,
Soon the sun will rise,
Wake up now, wake up now,
Tonight a father dies.

Steel skies,
Follow the path that the crow flies,
Set sail with the sunrise,
Soon I'll be home.