Lullaby

"Lullaby" - Altostratus
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Hush
Little children
There is nothing left to fear
We are still the victors

But what
Have we won
Hell for love, money bought mercy
And made her relative

Chorus:
Lullaby, how do you close your eyes?
Lullaby, how do you close your eyes?
Lullaby, how do you close your eyes?
Lullaby, how do you close your eyes?

A vision of hope
Is all I live by
In this dark and
Desolate dream of peace

I'm starting to lose resistance
To die to the images
Children dying parents frying
Why I am a part of this?

Lullaby, how do you close your eyes?
Lullaby, how do you close your eyes?
(tempo faster/strum change)
Lullaby, how do you close your eyes?
Lullaby, how do you close your eyes?

Don't you understand that we are not free?
I say bought with a Price, what do you believe?
We are all responsible, yes I too pull the trigger
We all have blood on our hands (on our heads)

(over chorus)
Oh, say can you see
That maybe we aren't perfect?
Oh, say can you see
That maybe we aren't perfect?
Oh, why can't you see
That we were never perfect?
Oh, why don't you believe
That we are not alone?

(over national anthem:
Oh say can you see
By the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hail'd
At the twilight's last gleaming
Whose broad stripes and bright stars
Through the perilous fight
O'er ramparts we marched...)

I want to believe that there's a happy ending
But now I see that we are all guilty
I want to believe that there's a happy ending
But now I see that we are all guilty
I want to believe that there's a happy ending
But now I see that we are all guilty
I want to believe that there's a happy ending

But now I see that we are all guilty