Some had no choice but to fight Our lives were over The moment we saw our number on the screen While others signed their lives away For their fathers and their country And fear of how they would be seen So gather all your strength Summon up the blood Now we will find out What we're really made of Right now Took us apart piece by piece Put us back together With cold steel in our hands and in our hearts Dropped us down in a pit of hell A million shades of green And on all sides the k**ing starts [chorus] IN THESE DAYS OF DESTRUCTION WE ALL BECOME THE MONSTERS THAT WE FEARED IN CHILDHOOD DREAMS IN THESE DAYS OF DESTRUCTION THE FIRST LESSON WE LEARN IS THAT NO ONE'S HANDS ARE CLEAN And the letters you wrote I had to burn them all The boy you knew Couldn't read them at all I lost him along the line Between here and there I've searched all over And can't find him anywhere We can't be blamed for what we've done Politics and morals As foreign now as any luxury And what's left can never come home Forever searching To find our lost humanity [chorus]