With one finger on the trigger   Backed against a wall   Here it's kill or be killed   Don't ask questions   How did this happen?   And why am I here now?   I don't want to die here   Dying to get out      When blood oils the machine   Should we tear the whole thing down?   Just start over   Start all over   I feel    I feel like I'm choking    On someone else's words   Just start over      I find it all peculiar   In an unfamiliar town   I'm here to set you free   By burning you down   Why should you be grateful?   For the bombs and the loss   Bullets don't lie here   Just politicians      When blood oils the machine   Should we tear the whole thing down?   Just start over   Start all over    I feel    I feel like I'm choking    On someone else's words   Just start over      When failure is not an option   It's now or not at all   I'm sorry I don't understand your words   As the blood paints the wall tonight   I have died a thousand times here   If I've lived at all   I'm only following orders   It's not my fault      I asked for an education   They handed me a gun   They said stamp out evil   Make us proud son   But I    I can't tell the difference   There's sand is in my dreams   I shake from the silence   I can still hear them screaming   If I    If I never leave here   If I'm buried in this place   To be remembered as I am now   Crying to wash the blood off my face      When failure is not an option   Now or not at all   I'm sorry I don't understand your words   As the blood paints the wall tonight   I have died a thousand times here   If I've lived at all   I'm only following orders   It's not my fault      As I lay there waiting   Tied to a chair   Oh the things I could have said   With that last breath of air      When blood oils the machine   Tear it all down