I got a letter from my love, It said exactly what I'm thinking of no words can say, Well darling I'll find away You see your diamond ring, I' here to say that doesn't mean a thing Without your love, And if that's all we got then take it off take it off

He walks away, The sun goes down, He takes the day but I'm grown, And it's okay, My tears dry on their own, In this blue shade, So we are history, My deep shade, All I can ever be to you,

Hate and war The only things we got today An' if I close my eyes They will not go away You have to deal with it It is the currency Hate, hate, hate, the hate of a nation A million miles from home And get war from the junkies

Breathe in deep And cleanse away our sins And we'll pray that there's no God To punish us and make a fuss You're so happy now Burning the candle at both ends Your self loving soothes And softens the blows you've invented Cracks healing up

Is it over? His dreams are closed Shared woes and fiction Far, far away I remember a world That's gone astray Close your eyes, hold your breath Dreams severed from each other now Are tangled in a web

Where'd you go? Oh memories! You were all I've ever known! How I miss yesterday! And how I'd let it fade away? Don't fade away. He was the congregation's vagrant, With an unrequited love. When your passion's exaltation,

And the drums are going a rap a tap tap And the fifes they loudly play Fare you well polly my dear I must be going away Wrapped up in a soldier's cloak If anyone comes a courting you, It's of a gentleman soldier As sentry he did stand He saluted a fair

Yeah everything goes away But bones in the ground We were tight knit boys Brothers in more then name You would kill for me And knew that I'd do the same And it cut me sharp Hearing you'd gone away But everything goes away

(Tearing my heart) (Tearing and breaking down) Tearing and breaking down Tearing my heart There goes my heart again Watch my heart fly away All the love that I have ever known Came from the sweetest of hearts Every time I was looking for love

I am not throwing away my shot Hey yo, I’m just like my country I’m young, scrappy and hungry And I’m not throwing away my shot When are these colonies gonna rise up? And I am not throwing away my shot We’re gonna rise up (time to take a shot) I’ma get a