[Verse 1]
We woke up as men, but tonight
Tonight we'll sleep as killers
As we break the cryptic morning
With a bullet and a prayer
The steel never seemed so cold and agile
And a life never seemed less vital and fragile

[Verse 2]
With a heart that's beating
Louder than my own
I watch a girl they call Kezia
I watch a woman that I know
My hope and my own future, blindfolded (To atone)
To atone for a sin I didn't care for
But a sin that paid my debts
A sin that fed my children
That burned my smiles and cigarettes

[Bridge]
And no one ever
Said that hope would be so beautiful
And no one ever
Said I'd have to pull the trigger, on her

[Verse 3]
I can't even still her trembling hands
That were locked up by the dutiful
And the obligated
[Instrumental]

[Verse 4]
Five soldiers forever sedated
With the "No one's responsible"
Pathological drama of our
Social justice dribble, dribble, dribble

[Verse 5]
Her tiny steps tell lies
About the choice I have to make
(Resurrect a static lifetime
Starve to death my own mistakes)

[Verse 6]
Pull the screaming trigger
And watch your carcass bleed me dry
Or drop the gun and try to shake away
The blindfold from your eyes?

[Refrain]
Drop the gun, drop the gun, drop the gun
Drop the gun!

[Outro]
Sin I didn't care for
But a sin that paid my debts
A sin that fed my children
And burned my smiles and cigarettes
Sin I didn't care for
But a sin that paid my debts
A sin that fed my children
That burned my smiles and cigarettes