I Am The Enemy - Memoriam

Come night, you can watch my eyes Lighting up like I'm seeing red Don't deny you're petrified Like you're looking at the living dead I'm the silhouette you can't forget Not a sight and not a sound Before you get your finger down on the trigger I'll knock you out and lay you down Cause i come in fast So I move in close So I moved up inside your mind You tried running to hide I'm the ghost that you fear the most So I come in fast So I move in close So I move in till we collide I'm wide eyed and alive Got you tired to the whipping post We once stood face to face But you cower at the sight of me You run the other way Cause I am the enemy I put you in your place You pray for security Cause I am the enemy I am the enemy Everything you know Everything you planned All your tactics like matchsticks go up in smoke, it's no joke that I'm here for the hat trick Man vs Machine You're going down I know exactly where you'll be So I come in fast So I move in close So I see you on the sideline while I'm out playing the field In shooting goals while you're hitting the post So I come in fast So I move in close Yeah I know that you're trying to find my weak side While I'm pushing the side on high, In 39 seconds you're toast We once stood face to face But you cower at the sight of me You run the other way Cause I am the enemy I put you in your place You pray for security Cause I am the enemy I am the enemy We once stood face to face But you cower at the sight of me You run the other way Cause I am the enemy I put you in your place You pray for security Cause I am the enemy I am the enemy I know you see me in your sleep One eye open trying not to breathe I know you see me in your sleep With one eye open trying not a breathe We once stood face to face But you cower at the sight of me You run the other way Cause I am the enemy I put you in your place You pray for security Cause I am the enemy I am the enemy We once stood face to face But you cower at the sight of me You run the other way Cause I am the enemy I put you in your place You pray for security Cause I am the enemy I am the enemy I am the enemy!!!

None can see the horror I have seen None can feel this emptiness I feel The veteran None can hear the screams I hear None can wash away the blood and tears In the line of duty Deep in harm's way Psychologically scarred The price you have paid Transition civilian life No one understands Unable to integrate No future, no plans Sleeping in doorways Living in the street Begging to strangers For coins so you can eat Most people don't look While others stare Society's rejected In a world that does not care None can see the horror I have seen None can feel this emptiness I feel The veteran None can hear the screams I hear None can wash away the blood and tears Lost all sense of meaning Reality surreal PTSD afflicted Wounds that never heal The veteran The veteran A message to the government Honor the military covenant

In this shattered landscape paralysed with fear There is no escape, you scream, nobody hears Mind is frozen, full of dread, none can help you now All around now lay the dead, no life can be found Crawling through no man's land across the mud and wire Regrouped for one last stand, caught in the crossfire Maxim burst, spitting forth a hail of certain death Creating a hell on Earth, gasp at your last breath You may live through this to fight another day The horror of it all will never fade away The pain that grows deep inside your mind Inner tranquility you will never find Lost all senses, far beyond control This inner anguish eats away your soul A living nightmare, all memory now blocked You body shaking, a victim of shell shock Awaiting in your prison cell, the time is drawing near No chance for last farewells, lucidity unclear The court martial has ordered you shall be shot at dawn Tied to a stake, blindfolded, life now gone Shell shock Shell shock Shell shock Shell shock Shell shock Shell shock Shell shock Shell shock

Undefeated No retreat, no respite Acts of valour unrepeated "No pasarán!" the battle cry Still forging on Through advancing years The past now gone Yet the memory remains Filled with pride In victory triumphant Fear denied Until this war is won Undefeated No retread, no respite Acts of valour unrepeated "No pasarán!" the battle cry Undefeated Undefeated When there's nothing left, you cannot take much more Remember who you are and what you're fighting for When you find yourself with your back against the wall Look to your inner strength, take courage, stand tall Still stay strong Life moves on Undefeated Undefeated

Reduced to zero Sum of mankind Result of centuries Humanity's demise Increased by hatred Fuelled by fear Intention resolute The prophecy foretold The end is near Look to the future Erase the past Create new existence Better than the last World free of contempt Malice cannot infest Void of hostility Constructed with respect Through the wreckage Of this land Ripped apart By our own hands Annihilation end of man As the slaughter overran Now behold what has been done Mankind's journey is begun Continuation eternity Recreation identity Reduced to zero Sum of mankind Result of centuries Humanity's demise Increased by hatred Fuelled by fear Intention resolute The prophecy foretold The end is near Rising from the flames No one else to blame Devastation all we knew We stand alone surviving few

How constantly we think of you With hearts and eyes that fill The love in life we had for you In death grows stronger still Let the winds of time blow softly Bells toll for all to hear Gone but not forgotten Throughout the passing years

Onwards into battle one more time The strategy has been planned Passed down from the high command Calm befalls the frontline Prepared to fight ready to die At the point of no return The tension mounts as thoughts converge At zero hour the order comes On the silence of the big guns Across the wire Through the crossfire Keep pushing on All senses gone Into the breach Brutality unleashed Fighting for your life Fist, boot and trench knife Onwards Onwards into battle one more time Onwards Onwards into battle one more time The triumph of this victory Vanquished are the enemy Moving onwards another war Into battle to fight once more