Battle Hymn of the Inferno (Take It Down)

My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of a war With battle flags and banners waving out of every door A grand parade A ceremony still The eyes of children grateful for their fill The army's on a hillside with their tanks and boning knives The daggers warped and ancient, ammunition: new and live A flag unfurls A sanguinary star A fist of smoke thick with the stench of tar Take it down, wrap it up, bag it up, do what you have to do Heads are piked along a nameless castle's rotting door The hymnals of the innocent lie moldering before An oil like shroud A reddish milky haze Behind the eyes of every living face My eyes have seen the bloody slush of fingers in the snow My eyes have seen the children lining cemetery row My eyes have seen enough It's time to let them go If someone can do better, I don't know If you're a warrior, clap your hands You'll have your fill of fallow lands If you're millennial, wait your turn You'll get to see your cities burn If there is love why is there always such a darkness in the way If there is love, why is the sum of life still predator and pray