The One Who Bleeds
Lyrics
Intro
If you hear my name, don't pray
I came back with the stain
Verse 1
F
Boot prints deep in the mud
Face gone cold, heart still thud
I seen boys turn to smoke
Seen moms get the telegram broke
War don't care what you carry
War don't care if you scared, if you married
It takes your sleep, then your grin
Leaves a ghost where the flesh has been
M
I was twenty with a loaded jaw
Fist full tight, I broke the law
Not on paper, in the head
Every siren made me see the dead
Now I flinch at a slammed door
Now I taste blood when it's quiet for
One more second, one more breath
That's how a survivor wrestles death
Pre-Chorus
F
Marching through the blackout
I lost my name in the shout-out
M
We don't all come home the same
Some come back with a different flame
Chorus
The one who bleeds
The one who bleeds
Still on their feet
Still on their feet
Survivor skin
Fallen kin
The one who bleeds
The one who bleeds
Verse 2
F
Battlefield or mind in chains
Same old dust, same old pain
Could be a street, could be a room
Could be your own skull split in bloom
I seen the living look half-dead
I seen the dead live in my head
Every medal got a hidden cost
Every "win" got somebody lost
M
I got a laugh that cuts too hard
Because I buried fear in the yard
I got a stare like broken glass
Because the past won't let me pass
Night comes back with a boot heel
Pushes the wound till I feel real
And I hate that I miss the fire
When the chaos fed the wired-up wire
Pre-Chorus
F
No one hears the tremor
Till the body starts to remember
M
No one names the ash
Till it rises out the flash
Chorus
The one who bleeds
The one who bleeds
Still on their feet
Still on their feet
Survivor skin
Fallen kin
The one who bleeds
The one who bleeds
Bridge
F
I talk to the lost in the back of my skull
Tell them I made it, but it ain't beautiful
Some got sealed in the dirt, some got sealed in my chest
Some wear the uniform, some wear the stress
M
If you hear me shake, don't call it weak
That's the war still talking through the teeth
We carry the names like blades on chain
We carry the hurt, but we carry on anyway
Chorus
The one who bleeds
The one who bleeds
Still on their feet
Still on their feet
Survivor skin
Fallen kin
The one who bleeds
The one who bleeds
Outro
War ends
The body stays
I bleed
So I don't fade