Blood in My Veins

from Letters Home by Defeater

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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,
and 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
Had me praying for death
For me and my friends
So we would 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

I re-read the postcards you sent and wish the truth was a lie
The waves on the hull throw your words off the side
The ship takes the dead and dying back home
I want to sink to the depths with the letters you wrote

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from Letters Home, released July 16, 2013

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