Blood In My Veins

Can you hear those birds sing?
 Means we're closer to shore
 Means we're closer to home
 Further from love and war
 Further from what made sense
 What we were born to do
 What kept the blood in our veins,
 Kept my veins thin with booze
 Kept my hand on my gun
 And my gun by my side
 Kept the moon in my thoughts
 With the sun in my eyes
 Kept my head hanging low
 Kept my gun by my side
 My brother's name in my head
 And the tears from my eyes
 Kept the blood in my veins,
 Kept the blood in my veins,
 Brothers name in my head
 Kept the blood in my veins
 Had me praying for death
 For me and my friends
 So we'd never wake up
 To our lovers again
 Because every lover had lied
 When they said we'd be fine
 When they said in good faith
 They'd sleep alone every night
 Hope to come home in one piece with our boys by our side
 Now we're ragged and torn like the flags that we fly
 Like the ones we lay down on a coffin so clean
 And see those eyes staring back the boys we used to be
 The boys we used to be
 Kept the blood in my veins
 (I re-read the postcards you sent with the truth was a lie)
 Kept the blood in my veins
 (The waves on the hull throw your words off the side)
 Brother's name in my head
 (The ship takes the dead and dying back home)
 And the blood in my veins
 (I want to sink to the depths with the letters you wrote)
 Kept the blood in my veins
 Kept the blood in my veins
 Brother's name in my head
 And the blood in my veins
 Kept the blood in my veins