"Under Fire" Lyrics

I'm under fire, blood red sky

Underneath the war machine

Fight for what's right don't ask why

Just make the sacrifice

Please, make the sacrifice

Desensitized but my eyes

Still recognize the pain

Through stark and real fight or die

Retreat has no place in this game

In the dark and under fire

Believing our cause was justified

Caught in the cross hair's condition dire

Trying a case of do or die

In the blink of an eye

I took someone's life

It's no wonder why

I'm haunted by it still

Bright flickering light

Snubbed by my numbing hands

Don't understand

One finger slip and it's over for him

All's fair in war so they say

But later as I try to sleep

I just can't help but replay

When I sat in as deity

Was this man a loving father?

Was this man a loving son?

Though it was one of us or the other

I don't feel like a lucky one

In the blink of an eye

I took someone's life

It's no wonder why

I'm haunted by it still

In the dark and under fire

Believing our cause was justified

Caught in the cross hair's condition dire

Trying a case of do or die

In the blink of an eye

I took someone's life

It's no wonder why

I'm haunted every night

I still hear his cries

And think about his wife and his kids

And all that he could have been

If only we'd have been friends

In a blink of an eye