The Battle of Anomie lyrics

On a foggy battlefield,
with bodies strewn about,
I sat upon my helmet with my stomach bleeding out.

and in a cage beside me
was the future I had trapped,
crying out for freedom as I quickly slapped it back.

at once I saw my Captain,
he was standing over me,
he shot open the lock and then he set my future free.

I looked around for answers,
and I asked my Captain why,
he had stripped me of my future and had left me here to die.

"perhaps your fate is not ideal,
it's true it takes all kinds,
your ingredient, your sadness makes the joy that others find."

"That was not your future,
it was never meant to be,
Anything deserved will not require lock and key."

"To hell with that,
I thought that I was guaranteed a turn,"
"There are no guarantees in life, just lessons to be learned."


"So what's the lesson here?
Never trust another soul?
I won't survive another wave with my spirit far from whole."

"Yours is not a mortal wound,
as painful as it is,
They've only scratched the surface and no organs have been hit."

"Time is not your enemy,
You'll need it by your side,
Give it room to do its work and let it pass you by."

"You'll find that when you've healed
that you are stronger than before
The scars will be your armor to protect you from the war."

He offered me a cigarette,
he slapped me on the back and said,
"It isn't over yet, so cut yourself a little slack."

I had trapped a future once,
but then it got away,
in the face of dark tomorrows, I have only just today.