Scott Landers (www.scott-landers.com) contributes his *blistering* electric guitar work to this hard rock exploration of the hard facts of war. "The more mandkind changes, the more we're the same..."
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Story behind the song
I've heard all the arguments for and against war. Whatever your political views, I invite you to place yourself for a moment in the middle of the shock and confusion in this song's soldier character now that "war's broken out in the funhouse," and "a thousand truths fit on the head of a pin."
Scott's musical interpretation of the constant intensity plus sudden shock of war is all over this track, as Hendrix achieved with "Machine Gun."
Lyrics
A war's broken out in the funhouse
Targets painted in the mirror hall
Explode into shards of confusion
Embedded wit trust behind unproven walls
Dodging the bullets of jokers
I'm hunting for aces in a deck of cards
Streaming the view from the frontline
Yet the frontline may be in our own backyard
I can't turn away from the glaring
In the eyes of such desperate hate
Am I taking control of my future
Or am I just taking the bait?
Chorus:
Enemy of my enemy
I've gone out on a limb to defend
Enemy of my enemy
I may never know if he's a friend
Enemy of my enemy
On his actions and words I depend
Enemy of my enemy
He may turn on me in the end
Treading through deepening trouble
When the eyes of the world may decide who will win
Digging for facts in the rubble
When a thousand truths fit on the head of a pin
I feel like we keep going through this
The more mankind changes, the more it's the same
From our minds can spring lifesaving powers
Still we want bigger weapons, we crave bigger flames
I can't turn away from the glaring
In the eyes of such desperate hate
Am I taking control of my future
Or am I just taking the bait?
Chorus