Warfair
Clawfinger Lyrics

Do you know how it feels to be down in the dirt.
Have you ever experienced the feeling of being low and helpless?

With a bullet in you breast and blood on your shirt.
Have you ever been shot and felt the pain of bleeding out?

Lying in a blood pool down in a pit.
Have you ever laid in your own blood in despair?

Covered with the corpse and the blood and the shit.
Have you ever been surrounded by dead bodies and waste?

How does it feel to have a gun at your head.
Have you ever been threatened with a gun to your head?

When you know that you'd be much better off dead.
When everything seems pointless and death feels like a better option?

Looking right down trough the barrel of a gun.
Staring down the barrel of a loaded gun and feeling helpless?

Don't try to tell me that you think it's fun.
Trying to deny the fact that there's nothing enjoyable about war?

Praying for your mercy don't say you see the light.
Pleading for mercy and hoping for salvation?

What difference does it make if the good lord's right.
Reflecting on the impact of religion and faith during wartime?

At the end of the war the survivors are none.
Recognizing that there are no true survivors in war?

Because a war is a loss a war can't be won.
Understanding that war is a futile and destructive activity?

You're just another soldier and you're doing the dying.
Realizing that in war, soldiers are just a statistic and easily replaceable?

You're a symbol of a nation so boy stop crying.
Being pressured to put on a brave face and represent your country?

Hero of a war such a man so brave.
The idea of being a hero in war is often misguided?

A Medal's worth nothing when you're lying in your grave.
Winning medals and recognition is pointless if you're dead?

5 o'clock in the morning and they shout out your name.
Being awoken early to begin another day of war?

But they don't really care 'cause you all look the same.
Feeling like you're just a faceless solider, not an individual person?

Now this is the army and we train to kill.
Understanding that the main objective of the military is to end lives?

Our job is to give you that fighting will.
Being trained to have a desire to fight and kill?

So get off your knees and stand straight like a man.
Being told to man up and be brave despite the situation?

Do I have to tell you twice to make you understand.
Being given orders and expected to follow without question?

Freedom has a price and that price is blood.
Being told that freedom and liberty come at a violent and deadly cost?

So chase the motherfucker right down in the mud.
Being instructed to follow orders and pursue the enemy no matter the cost or surroundings?

Ignore all your feelings just go all the way.
Being encouraged to suppress emotions and feelings to focus on the mission?

If you don't then death is the price you have to pay.
Considering the deadly consequences of not following orders in a warzone?

This ain't peace and love no man this is war.
Understanding that the horrors of war are far from peaceful or loving?

Don't even dare to ask what you're fighting for.
Realizing that soldiers may not even understand the reasons they're fighting in a war?

Just search and destroy never question a lie.
Being told to attack and destroy without questioning the motives or underlying reasons?

You don't want to bite the bullet boy you don't want to die.
Acknowledging the universal fear of death, especially in wartime?

That's a load of fucking bullshit boy I know you can.
Rejecting the idea that someone couldn't kill in the heat of battle?

Marching into history Marching into war.
Recognizing that war is an event that will go down in history and shape society?

Can you feel the shame.
Reflecting on the guilt and shame that often accompanies war?

Marching into misery you function as a whore.
Feeling like a mindless tool, willing to do anything to get the job done in a warzone?

Warfair, warfair, warfair, warfair
Repeating the phrase 'warfair' to emphasize the eternal cycle of warfare?