When the War Comes Home
2017 · Not On Label · Canada
- Artist
- Whom Gods Destroy
- Title
- When the War Comes Home
- Release
- Far Reaches
- Year
- 2017
- Label
- Not On Label
- Format
- Digital · Album
- Country
- Canada
- Genre
- Metal · Heavy Metal
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — Metal Songs
"When the War Comes Home"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Nine soldiers, one jungle / Twelve sleepless nights / War-torn lands, blood rivers / No end in sight / Come darkness I remember / Flashes all around / Black devils spit lightning / Thunder from the ground / Fire raging, bush blazing / Smoke stings my eyes / Flesh burning, men screaming / Bodies baked alive / Time after time it comes back in the night / See the blood and blackened bones / I've returned from the battle but it's still inside / When the war comes home / The war comes home / Ten years now, wounds long healed / So I tell myself / Celebration, fireworks fly / And I'm back in hell / Guns sounding, hearts pounding / Charlie's got us down / Innocents cry, dead children / Village on the ground / Time after time it comes back in the night / See the blood and blackened bones / I've returned from the battle but it's still inside / When the war comes home / The war comes home / Father, please forgive me, for I know that I've done wrong / These images still haunt me like the ghosts of Viet Cong / Shall I pull this trigger, blow them straight out of my head? / It's one more for the body count, just one more soldier dead / Time after time it comes back in the night / See the blood and blackened bones / I've returned from the battle but it's still inside / When the war comes home / The war comes home / Nine soldiers, one jungle / No one came home
About the artist
DIY Heavy Metal trio from Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Canada: Adam Bondarenko (vocals), Tim Gaudet (guitar, vocals), Eli Bondarenko (bass, synth); "Far Reaches" self-released April 2017. [Source: Bandcamp]