Lyrics

Hate is a word they taught me
Made it sweet like sugar on my tongue
Lifetimes are weighed, they tell me,
by the wars this word has won

It is ageless and faceless and hungry
and it grows in the damp and the shade
Waiting for signs of my enemies
defined by the shift this wind makes

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But I stand here now, looking out
on this battle weary road
I can't find the line between ignorance and where all the good men go

So here are my guns

I don't know you, but I don't have to
All I need are the things I can see
Your culture, your language, your color
must mean you are nothing like me

But, look, you cut just as easy
And, look, your blood is red like mine
How can it be those who've shaped my vision
have left me so blind
They have left me so blind

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So here are my guns
I'm giving them to you
And maybe you'll play me
the same cards I've dealt
But I'm safer from you
than I am from myself
So here are my guns
Here are my guns
Here are my guns