Let me set the scene
I was just 18
In a holy foreign land
I had no rules
I had no plans
And yes sobriety
was just a memory
We drank to freedom every night
Until the early light
I can always see their faces
There are dreams that always stay
A host of lies in foreign tongue
As fortunes wheel was spun
I felt the barrel at my neck
I felt the earth connect
A lie
A bribe a way to pay
We didn't know it worked that way
Shoved in cells until we learned
This is not your world
I've been a million different places
But nothing's stained me like that day
I don't dare to think
I can't think to dreamĀ
About the things we've doneĀ
All to forgive God willing
I was only youngĀ
It's never what it seemsĀ
The way the future's won
all to forgive God willing
A little girl upon the road
A swerve, a future soldĀ
The sickening sound of broken bones
Another empty homeĀ
They surrounded us with screams and now they haunt my dreams
As we drive away at speed
I feel the earth recede
I don't dare to think
I can't think to dreamĀ
About the things we've doneĀ
All to forgive God Willing
I was only youngĀ
It's never what it seemsĀ
The way the future's won
all to forgive God willing
The cold embrace, a moments grace
A tragic loss, I bear the cross
The harder I live, the quicker I die
Lies we've told, left me cold, secrets keep
Don't let me sleep
The more I forgive
The harder I cry
And now I see
it's me who grieves
it's me who lost and what cost
It feels just like I'm stepping back
into the bleak, into the black
I feel the ice crawl down my spine
I know it's near the time
I feel my years just slip away and I'm that child again
I'll never find another hero
there's nothing more that I can say
I don't dare to think
I can't think to dreamĀ
About the things we've doneĀ
All to forgive God Willing
I was only youngĀ
It's never what it seemsĀ
It's how the futures won
All to forgive God willing