Badflower - Machine Gun Lyrics

That's just what they told me

You could be a patriot

Don't you love your country?

Don't you wanna die for it?



How could they enlist me?

I was only seventeen

It's better to be thankful

Than challenge their authority



This is how the world is

This is how they suck you in

Manipulate the broken

To suffer every consequence

They gave me a machine gun

But I don't wanna hurt no one

There's nothing here to fight for

This is someone else's war



That's just what they told me

Son, you could be a patriot

Defender of your country

Protector of the innocent



We'll beat 'em with a clenched fist

By order of your government

They said we were the good guys

But what if we're the terrorists?



This is how the world is

This is how they suck you in

Manipulate the broken

To suffer every consequence

They gave me a machine gun

But I don't wanna hurt no one

There's nothing here to fight for

This is someone else's war



This is how the world ends

This is how they suck you in

Manipulate the broken

To suffer every consequence

I'm only a statistic

And no one even gives a shit

The treatment for my shell shock

Yeah, they won't even pay for it



I fired that machine gun

I never meant to hurt no one

And as my friends and foes bleed

We satisfy a rich man's greed



Maybe I don't know a damn thing

I've never been through anything

This is all I can be

A voice for someone else's grief

He fired that machine gun

She never meant to hurt no one

'Cause once you leave a headstone

You never really make it home