We loaded our guns on the edge of the screen Where the truth is a rumor and rage is routine Every word is a weapon, every glance is a war And nobody remembers what we’re fighting for We were strangers once, now we’re enemies fast Trading futures away for a glorified past There’s a comfort in hatred, it fits like a glove It asks nothing of us, not even love Refrain: So we sing hallelujah to the damage we’ve done To the beautiful lie that we’ve finally won Oh we feast on the fire, we drink from the flood And we call it freedom while it tastes like blood There’s a voice in my head that sounds just like mine Says the fault’s always yours, says the fault’s never mine And it echoes so loudly, I don’t even see It’s a choir of one, dressed like a “we” Oh we dance in the ruins of nuance and doubt Where the loudest conviction just drowns the truth out And the lines that divide us are drawn in the sand But we carve them in stone with a trembling hand Refrain: So we sing hallelujah to the damage we’ve done To the beautiful lie that we’ve finally won Oh we feast on the fire, we drink from the flood And we call it justice while it tastes like blood There’s a child asking questions we won’t understand Why we burn every bridge just to prove where we stand But we hand them our anger like some sacred heirloom And teach them to hate in a well-lighted room And the truth walks among us, quiet and thin But it starves in the noise that we’re drowning it in Still it knocks at the door like it’s begging to stay While we lock it outside and we turn it away Bridge: Oh it’s sweet, oh it’s righteous, oh it’s easy to blame To reduce every soul to a side in a game But the mirror is cracking from all that we hide And there’s nobody left on the “other” side Final Refrain: So we sing hallelujah to the damage we’ve done To the war we’ve mistaken for something we’ve won Oh we kneel to the idols we swore we’d defy And we live in the truth that we taught how to lie We loaded our guns… We loaded our guns… And we call it being alive. [End]
