Time Itself

[Verse 1:]
Run a man through
In a war already fought
Kill or be killed
Where I'm from he's already dead
This blood so like mine
Staining the length of my blade
Do I believe?
Something not human lies at my feet?

[Pre-Chorus 1:]
Know the enemy
Hard when you've never seen one.

[Verse 2:]
No time for rest
Another challenges me
I must advance
Over fields of death and mud
I could use my gun
And end all these savages now
But only a sword
A weapon from this distant age.

[Pre-Chorus 2:]
Know the enemy
So hard when you've never seen one.

[Chorus:]
The faces in the gun sight
could almost be mine
Are these ancient warriors
I meet on the line?
So long in endless battle
Beginning to see
It makes monsters of us all
Time's the enemy.

[Bridge:]
Target ahead
A hidden village in the night
Defenseless now
Their men lay butchered
They don't belong
This stronghold in our history
Invasive force
They must die so that we may live.

[Pre-Chorus 3:]
Defend the future
A time when you won't exist.

[Verse 3:]
Horrors of war
Al you've seen and what you've done
Desensitized
Until you feel no regret
Bodies fall
The centuries have brought me here
So very close
To the edge of the abyss.