Blacktop Recess is a 5 piece metal band from Southern Ontario, Canada. The combined energy and ambition of these young musicians makes for a meaningful message
Henry Bartsch,Brett Wolfe,Phil Froese,Kyle Dewdney
Rights
Blacktop Recess / Ground Up Studios
Uploaded
December 05, 2011
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.4 MB • 128 kbps • 3:41
Lyrics
Oh say can you see the forest for the trees? 'Cause all I see are broken bodies and broken dreams.
Youth wasted and questions unanswered. We gave them hell! God knows we gave it everything we
had and still they fell. These years we've spent dragging this out. How many lies now? How many lives
now? These years spent covering your tracks. The great deception. You give the orders but you do
not take the bullets. More of the same, disguised as change. Their lives: the price we paid for freedom.
More of the same, disguised as change. They won't have died for nothing. It won't be in vain. The home
of the brave is now a den of thieves. Our dead were better men, it is for them we grieve. Our losses
to further your purpose. We are the damned! Their judgment on your head. Their blood is on your hands.
They gave up everything for what they thought was right. When it really was an easy paycheck.
When it was a lie. For the lives we’ve lost, for the blood we’ve shed, this is a monument.
A ballad for our dead.
