Album: Mindless Conformity For Fun and Profit!
Track: 3

Probably my best poem (and work of prose; I wrote a story around it!) to date. Hopefully, the music will do it justice. Even if I think I forgot to include one of the verses, since I was playing it based on my memorization of the poem.

Lyrics:
Father, can you hear me?
Mother, do you care?
Do these eyes of mine stare
Into nothingness...?

It was one, two, three,
March along with me,
As we trudge on, to our graves.
If you're one to pray,
Add to them today
That our bloodied souls be saved.

Pound these dusty streets
With our aching feet;
Our boots trample what yet lives.
Shake the graying hand
Of a dying man-
We'll take anything you'll give.

Then the enemy,
Our front scouts did see,
With so many more a gun.
As such was our lot-
These colors may not-
But, lord God, how we did run.

After half a night,
We could not but fight,
To defend what ground we had;
"Not to reason why,
But to do and die":
Truer words were never said.

We fought hard and good,
Like true soldiers should-
We paid for that with our deaths.
Take one look at me
As beneath this tree,
I release my final breath.

Mother, can you hear me?
Father, do you care?
Or do these eyes of mine stare
Into nothingness again?

I love my gun and my gun loves me.
We are as close as two loves can be.
I feed her the bullets, she feeds me their pain-
Oh, God, am I human or am I insane?
Happiness is her muzzle,
Sorrow when she is cold.
Now listen up, soldier,
And do as you're told.
Back to the front with you,
Back to misery.
Back to the blindness.
Will we ever see?
Come now to me, shadows,
I've been waiting for you.
Are you one of them?
Are you here to take me?
I'm ready.

And it's one, two, three,
Dance along with me.
We shall waltz on, with the night.
Dim your eyes, now, sir,
Because, to be sure,
They could never stand the light.

Father, are you listening?
Mother, can you hear?
Do either of you notice,
As once more I disappear?

Take me from this harm,
Back into your arms.
Please, tell me that I can stay.
But one last request
As I surrender this breath...

Won't you make the bad men go away?