Thick veil of smoke
Grey spirals in the air
I cannot see beyond
Pride and pain

I raise my shield
For truth is all around
Words turned weapons
Friends turned enemies

And as the pale Sun sets
On the battlefield
The lies I told myself
Haunt my restless dreams
Real nightmares

With every dawn
The fight ignites again
Against the world, to survive and to prevail
Inside our mind
Between reason, love and hate
And there’s no end

Lost in this land of chaos
Nothing more makes sense
How can we stain with blood
The little sand we have?
I feel a sudden pull
To leave these fields of pain, (Come back home!)
Desert the cage of fear
Following another law
Written inside us

Craving for peace
How we burn in hate and war
Destroying ourselves
The finest art we learnt
Our soul was sacrificed
What else to give, to drain?
And what’s our gain?

I lost my shield
I'm a soldier coming home
I'm just a child
In need of an embrace
Reality is here
As masks of ego fade
Beyond the smoke light