Ballista

I toiled through mental wastelands
With a vow to avenge
Restitution through carnage
On a quest to quench the pain

Lock and load
I proposed a new beginning
We rejoiced in sworn allegiance
We wallowed in the resurrection of hope

The intent was to demolish
To trace a death refined
I shot for extinction
And aimed to leave nothing behind

Lock and load
I proposed a new beginning
We rejoiced in sworn allegiance
We wallowed in the resurrection of hope

Violence and mass destruction
All hail the violent reconstruction
The rotten stench of human debris
Distinctive trails of postwar casualties

Lock and load
I proposed a new beginning
We rejoiced in sworn allegiance
We wallowed in the resurrection of hope

Content at last, residing on bloodstained ground
And as the vapour falls and in the aftermath of combat
I close my eyes and I dream and I remember