War All The Time

Standing on the edge of the Palisades' Cliffs
 In the shadow of the skyline very far away
 Like a lightning rod that couldn? t pull the storm from me
 I was 5 years old, my best friend's older brother died
 He fell from these cliffs
 The river washed him away, the current pulled him downstream
 And our lives float in the headlines, so we park these cars
 Parent? s garage listen to the lullaby
 Of carbon monoxide
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 War all of the time
 In the shadow of the New York skyline
 We grew up too fast, falling apart
 Like the ashes of American flags
 If the sun doesn't rise
 We'll replace it with an H-bomb explosion
 A painted jail cell of light in the sky
 Like three mile island nightmares
 On TVs that sing us to sleep
 They burn on and on like an oil field
 Or a memory of what it felt like
 To burn on and on and not just fade away
 All those nights in the basement
 The kids are still screaming
 On and on and on and on
 War all of the time
 In the shadow of the New York skyline
 We grew up too fast, falling apart
 Like the ashes of American flags
 And we? re blowing in the wind
 We don? t know where to land
 So we kiss like little kids
 We used to be very tall buildings
 We? ve been falling for so long
 Now your eyes are a sign on the edge of town
 They offer a welcome when you are leaving
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 War all of the time
 In the shadow of the New York skyline
 We grew up too fast, falling apart
 Like the ashes of American flags
 The pieces fall it? s like a last day parade
 And the fires in our streets start to rage
 So wave to those people who long to wave back
 From the fabric of a flag that sang, "Love all of the time"
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 War all the time, war all the time
 All of the time
 War all the time, war all the time
 All of the time, all of the time
 War all of the time, war all of the time
 War all of the time, war all of the time