Blood in My Veins (Explicit)

Blood in My Veins - Defeater

Can you hear those birds sing

Means we're closer to the shore

Means we're closer to the home

Further from love and war

Further from what made sense

What we were born to do

What kept the blood in our veins

Keep my veins thin with booze

Kept my hand on my gun

And my gun by my side

Kept the moon in my thoughts

With the sun in my eyes

Kept my head hanging low

Kept my gun by my side

My brother's name in my head

And the tears from my eyes

Kept the blood in my veins

Kept the blood in my veins

Brother's name in my head

Kept the blood in my veins

Had me praying for death

For me and my friends

So we never wake up

To our lovers again

Every lover had lied

When they said we'd be fine

When they said in good faith

Sleep alone every night

To come home in one piece

With our boys by our side

Now we're ragged and the torn

Like the flags that we fly

Like the ones we lay down

On a coffin so clean

See those eyes staring back

The boys we used to be

The boys we used to be

Kept the blood in my veins

I read the postcards you

Sent wish the truth was a lie

Kept the blood in my veins

The waves on the hull

Throw your words off the side

Brother's name in my head

The ship takes the deed

And dying back home

And the blood in my veins

I want to sing to the depths

With the letters you wrote

Kept the blood in my veins

Kept the blood in my veins

Brother's name in my head

And the blood in my veins

Kept the blood in my veins