[Intro] Red light Black sky Rotor wash and a thin moon No speeches No heroes Just... Ready [Verse 1] Helmand sleeping underneath us Dust and walls beneath the blades Green world behind the lenses Every shadow has a shape Weight on our shoulders Steel on our chests Hearts running hard Breathing slow Man to our left Man to our right Don't need words We already know [Pre-Chorus] Thirty seconds Ten Five Door opens Cold air hits And everything inside us... Clicks [Chorus] GREEN UNDER BLACK Blood running hot Boots touch earth And the whole world comes alive GREEN UNDER BLACK No room for fear When the dark starts talking... We hear it clear Hearts like thunder Hands like stone We don't think about dying We think about bringing everybody home GREEN UNDER BLACK We're awake now [Verse 2] Bird disappears Night gets quiet For half a breath Then— Contact [Heavy Break] Darkness cracks Dust jumps Time folds in Seconds stretch Then disappear No rage No panic No wasted motion Training takes what fear was holding World gets small Man beside us Next breath Next move Nothing else exists Till the work is through [Pre-Chorus] There's a strange kind of calm When everything goes wrong We find out who we are When instinct has to carry on [Chorus] GREEN UNDER BLACK Blood running hot Night catches fire But the hands don't stop GREEN UNDER BLACK No room for doubt Everything inside us Narrows down Hearts like thunder Minds ice cold We don't think about legends We think about the brothers we're bringing home GREEN UNDER BLACK Still moving [Verse 3] Name on a board Now flesh and walls Weeks of waiting Minutes of chaos Then suddenly... Nothing No victory music No cheering Just breathing Dust settling And the sound of our own heartbeats Coming back Mission complete Two words through the radio Funny... They sound smaller Than what it took to say them [Bridge] Here's what nobody tells you Our hands don't shake when we need them They wait Till the bird comes back Till we're strapped in Till somebody says... We're clear Then somewhere over Helmand With the adrenaline finally losing its grip... We look down And there it is That little tremor Like our bodies finally got permission To understand [Breakdown] We remember the rush We'd be lying if we said we didn't Every sense open Every doubt gone Completely alive For a few violent minutes But we remember the quiet more Because that's when the questions arrive [Final Chorus] GREEN UNDER BLACK Blood cooling down Rotor blades pull us off the ground GREEN UNDER BLACK Count every man One... Two... Three... Everybody's here Hearts still thunder Hands finally shake That's the price the body collects When the mind won't break GREEN UNDER BLACK Still breathing Still brothers Still here [Final Lift] Helmand below us Dawn somewhere behind the dark No medals in our heads No headlines No glory Just names Faces Men we'd go back for And one thought we couldn't shake... We came together We're leaving together Tonight... That's enough [Outro] Red light Black sky Rotor blades Eyes closed For the first time all night ... Mission complete [Final Guitar Resolve]
