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Brothers in Arms

from Blame the Machines by Electric Shadow Puppets

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lyrics

I gotta a whole slew of motherfuckers out to get me
But a whole crew of other brothers love to rep me
And they’ll protect me in the dead of the night
When its on and poppin’ and we ready to fight
I just throw up a light, the bat signal is charged
All you see is mother fuckers getting outta their cars
Brass knuckles and bats, switchblades in their jackets
It's generals, lieutenants, sergeants, foot soldiers, and captains
Anything can happen, yeah, we rumblin’ now
Its mayhem in the streets, buildings crumbling down
All around us is chaos like the world as we know it
Slipping right through our fingers the more we try to control it
Through the eyes of a poet, our story is spoken
My brothers in arms, their bodies bloody and broken
Ripped open their stomachs, ribs poking up from it
corpses filling the streets, the blood pouring in buckets

(Chorus)
To my brothers in arms, I promise you, you will see no harm
We must stand true, we will stay strong
For the fame and the fortune, till they're painting our portraits, till the whole worlds wanting our courtship
To my brothers in arms, I promise you, you will see no harm
We must stand true, we will stay strong
For the guts the and glory, till the end of our story, till the whole worlds screaming it for me

It's heaven verse hell, yeah it's angels verse demons
My life is a nightmare, someone pinch me, I’m dreaming
And I know that your fiending, but I’ll be your crutch
When you're down on your luck, and no one else gives a fuck
Cause that’s what I’m here for, you're someone I care for
We soldiers in this war like the army or Air Force
I’m the one you rely on, the shoulder to cry on
Put your life in my hands and I will lead us to Zion
I promise you that when the worlds at its coldest
And you're feeling hopeless that I shall remain focused
Have strength for us both it's
The least I could do
If the roles were reversed, I know that you’d do it to.
You have nothing to prove so let me carry this weight
The world on my shoulders and I swear I won’t break
Past the heavenly gates, past the sinners and saints
Past anyone who stands in our way

(Chorus)

(Bridge)
Come on now
Come on now
Come on now
Come out and fight

And thus the conclusion, the end of our journey
Thousands of bodies all strapped to the gurneys
The buildings were burning, a world lay to waste
But we had driven them back, stared death in the face
To Hell and back we had marched, the dust had now settled
Stench of blood in the air, burnt rubber and mettle
It was hot as a kettle and so hard to breath
The flies infested the bodies, the vultures circled the trees
And my brothers and me, yeah, my brothers in arms
Had emerged through the carnage, through the eye of the storm
Through the smoke of a bomb, we came out smelling like roses
Those of us who had survived the explosions
Though now there was few where once there was many
Our story’s past down, uh, and remains legendary
Shadow Puppets baby sing our praises through song Of our rise and our fall, yeah, you sing along

(Chorus)

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from Blame the Machines, released September 9, 2008

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