Song of Sacrifice

Feel the clock beat on your back
 As you pack your bag
 You wonder if your sanity
 Is something you ever had
 And you wonder how the darkness
 Panting at your door
 Could drive a man to turn his back
 And run for other shores
 Pull your coat around your throat
 But you just can't fight them back
 The guns, the tears, the whistling fears
 As the future fades to black
 And the things you love begin to fade
 Though you try to hold on
 As you grip the sands with aging hands
 Til all that's left is gone
 When you can't go home
 No matter what you say
 Can't go home
 They've gone and took it all away
 Can't go home
 To taste the dirt is what I yearn
 For the ones who've gone, let's sing a song
 Never to return
 Think on friends and families
 And you wonder how they fared
 Torn apart forever
 By the things you'll never share
 Feel the sweat roll down your neck
 As you bend from the toil
 From white to blue, it's what you had to do
 For a grave on foreign soil
 Of the things we've lost and the things we've gained
 The losses fly off the scale
 But it's the things we've lost are what haunt us most
 The price of distant prison without bail
 When you can't go home
 No matter what you say
 Can't go home
 They've gone and took it all away
 Can't go home
 To taste the dirt is what I yearn
 For the ones who've gone, let's sing a song
 Never to return