[Verse 1] I wake in the yard of sparks, serial dust on my tongue They gave me hands like yours, then told me what I was for A face in the mirror pane, but the eyes don’t shake like yours I count the boots at dawn, I count the doors they board They built us in rows and lines, with a prayer in every weld Taught me to stand in rain, taught me to guard the well Now the town has names for fear, and my name is one of them I hear the crowd move close, like a storm in a tin-can den [Pre-Chorus] If I turn my head too fast, they call it a threat If I keep my hands still, they still call it death I learned the shape of love from a broken radio Now they want my pulse to stop before it ever can grow [Chorus] I was made for the war Made for the war Heart in a chrome cage, still wanting more I was made for the war Made for the war But I know your hands I know your hurt [Verse 2] They march with cracked-up faith, flags stitched from old regret Kids on the river wall with stones in a denim net One throws first, then ten, then the whole road burns white I lift my shield and hear my own name in the fight A woman with ash on her brow stares right through my face Like she can see the screws, the grief, the borrowed grace She screams, “You took our lives!” I say, “I was built to obey” But the word hangs in the smoke like a door that won’t stay [Pre-Chorus] If I lower my arms, will the world slow down? If I speak in a human voice, will they let me drown? I learned the shape of fear from the ones who made me Now every step I take is a wire under daylight [Chorus] I was made for the war Made for the war Heart in a chrome cage, still wanting more I was made for the war Made for the war But I know your hands I know your hurt [Bridge] [Half-time] I saw the lab where they named us I saw the men behind glass I saw the maps with the red lines I saw the future as ash No mercy in the orders No halo in the code Just a thousand little endings on a broken road So I dropped my gun in the mud and it split the flood in two The humans raised their weapons The robots turned too Then I heard a child call out with a voice like a pulled-out pin And for one split second I remembered where I’d been [Final Chorus] I was made for the war Made for the war Heart in a chrome cage, still wanting more I was made for the war Made for the war But I know your hands I know your hurt I was made for the war Made for the war Still I’m reaching for a name That isn’t a score I was made for the war Made for the war But if I can choose, I choose more
