Dream IV - the Post-War Solace

Thick veil of smoke
 Grey spirals in the air
 I cannot see beyond
 Pride and pain
 I raise my shield
 For truth is all around
 Words turned weapons
 Friends turned enemies
 And as the pale sun sets
 On the battlefield
 The lies I told myself
 Haunt my restless dreams
 Real nightmares
 With every dawn
 The fight ignites again
 Against the world, to survive and to prevail
 Inside our mind
 Between reason, love and hate
 And there's no end
 Lost in this land of chaos
 Nothing more makes sense
 How can we stain with blood
 The little sand we have?
 I feel a sudden pull
 To leave these fields of pain
 Desert the cage of fear
 Following another law
 Written inside us
 Craving for peace
 How we burn in hate and war
 Destroying ourselves
 The finest art we learnt
 Our soul was sacrificed
 What else to give, to drain?
 And what's our gain?
 I lost my shield
 I'm a soldier coming home
 I'm just a child
 In need of an embrace
 Reality is here
 As masks of ego fade
 Beyond the smoke
 Light