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A soldier bends
For a fallen friend
Shot in the head
By a bored man
He puts the barrel
To his temple
Pulls the trigger
With no success
In his mind
He's already dead
"Thank you for your service."
Sometimes the message
Is double-edged
We're at our finest
In our final moments
No matter how or why
We die
We're at our finest
In our final moments
When it's time to say
Goodbye
"Mommy's tired, Daisy Mae.
Why don't you go out to play?"
An hour later and not a peep
Had her mother worrying
So she got up from her slumber
Then buried her child 6 ft under
Sometimes the message
Is silent
We're at our finest
In our final hour
No matter how or why
We die
We're at our finest
In our final hour
When it's time to say
Goodbye
Whether final fears
Or lasting love
Concerns about
Below or above
Words of empathy
Or regret
All are safe bets
When near death
We're at our finest
In our final message
No matter how or why
We die
We're at our finest
In our final message
When it's time to say
Goodbye
They took my sanity
Before I took my life
Brainwashed on LSD
Toward accidental suicide
So many words in every language
All I had was one in mind
Hard to say so I sent a message
All I could relay was
'Goodbye'
Sometimes the message
Is left unsaid
We're at our finest
In our final seconds
No matter how or why
We die
We're at our finest
In our final seconds
When it's time to say
Goodbye
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Themisis Tracks
PoetrySongs for Blind & Bound, a 2-disc metal anthology: 26 songs for kind killers & the killing kind
