Search and Rescue

You're taking your direction from
The man that says pick up the gun
It feels like days and weeks and months
But you know your war has just begun
The Bombs and mortars sound like drums
They falling like the tears coming from the sun
And then you looking and around
At what you have found
Is all of nothing that surrounds you before you run
And now you're calling on the company to turn around
You hear a silence all around
So you need survive till the captain arrives and you have to believe that they know you're alive again

Have you been working
For the flag that you're waiving
You watch it falling to the ground
Are you wasting your time here
Cause you're losing your mind here

Now you're lying on the desert floor
And it's colder than it's been before
The pictures that you burn is how she keeps you warm
As you shiver cold but such is war
She's leaning on the bedroom door
With her head in her hands she can't take no more
She's has no disguise
For the tears in her eyes
And now she's hoping you remember who your fighting for
And now you're calling on the company to turn around
You hear the silence all around
But when no one arrives the look in your eyes is dying along with your will to survive
She's holding on tight
To the notion you might
Be coming back to see her in the middle of the night
But she needs to be free
And she's starting to see
That it all might be hopeless and struggles to breathe

Have you been working
For the flag that you're waving
You watch it falling to the ground
Are you wasting your time here
Cause you're losing your mind here
When the choppers never turn around
Have you been searching
Where did you find them
Or are they gone gone gone again
She's losing her mind here
Cause she thinks that you died here

She says
I don't want to fall on the ground
When I hear your never coming around
From all the people that come and go that live outside this place
Remember how she knew to imply
She'll be the one to stand by your side
The way she was looking when the sun reflects her face
But if you're skirting disaster, you better move a bit faster

And then the lights are on
For a minute your feeling strong
So you grab the hand of the soldier man that will pick you up from the desert sand and you know
You've been gone for way too long and the whole time she's been wrong
Cause a year ago when she though you were gone she was moving on
So you fly back on the fast track and now you stepping through the door and find you're standing alone again

So have you been working your hands to the bone
Just to get home
She must have been certain how could she know
Where would she go
Where are you searching and what did you find or was she gone
She had plenty of time there
To think you had died there