How It’s Meant to Be (PttF v6 cover)

[Verse]

This is for you: slick tongues in tailored lies,

Politicians, tyrants: soulless shells with hollow eyes.

You’ve drowned the earth in endless waves of pain,

Sowed wrath and hatred, forged war’s iron chain.

To you it’s collateral, no more than wasted breath,

You thirst for oceans of blood, a banquet of death.

By ruthless intention, lives are cast away with ease.

Is that our purpose ... for you to bleed, then cease?

[Pre-Chorus]

Hear my suggestion, the majority stands with me.

Go into battle yourselves ... we want peace ...

can’t you see?

[Chorus]

Step forth, leaders of this world, march into the fray,

You lusted for war, you stole our choice away.

Bare us the venom that festers in your core,

Tear it wide open, let it stain the floor.

Come on, crush your empty skulls for all to see,

We’ll roar with applause ... that’s how it’s meant to be!

[Verse]

It’s no work of art to seal a deadly fate,

when others march through hell’s consuming gate.

You preach of honor, of duty, of flags held high,

But your lives are too precious ... let the rabble die.

You stoke the fire with greed you can't conceal,

In conflict you see profit and power ... nothing else is real.

[Bridge]

Not the souls that vanish, burning in the fight,

Not the orphans wailing through every sleepless night.

[Pre-Chorus]

Hear my proposal ... the time has come for you to bleed,

March to the slaughter ... pay the price of your own greed.

[Chorus]

Step forth, leaders of this world, march into the fray,

You lusted for war, you stole our choice away.

Bare us the venom that festers in your core,

Tear it wide open, let it stain the floor.

Come on, crush your empty skulls for all to see,

We’ll roar with applause ... that’s how it’s meant to be!

[Interlude]

[Verse]

Daughters, sons,

Mothers, fathers ...

[Build-up]

Watch them as they’re dying, don’t dare to look away,

Fight to your last breath ... hear duty’s call, obey!

Duck down your heads, press through the trench in fright,

While drones stalk the day and mortar fire splits the night.

Stagger through rivers of blood, your comrades slain,

Bodies shattered by bullets and shrapnel’s reign.

Come on, ...

face the dread of battle, the torment and pain,

Crawl screaming through hell ...

you will never be the same.

[Break]

Would you still strive for war, still demand to be brave,

If the cost was your carcass in a nameless grave?

[Pre-Chorus]

We all know the answer, it’s bitter but clear,

You’d be the first ones to run when the flames draw near.

[Final-Chorus]

Step forth, leaders of this world, march into the fray,

You lusted for war, you stole our choice away.

Bare us the venom that festers in your core,

Tear it wide open, let it stain the floor.

Come on, crush your empty skulls for all to see,

We’ll roar with applause ... that’s how it’s meant to be!

that’s how it’s meant to be!!!!

[Outro]

And when we are old and our days run dry,

We might shed a lonely tear as we bid you goodbye.

Politicians ... to the front!

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[End]