Breakaway Lyrics

Can you see what you've become hiding
Yourself behind a loaded gun?
You will never feel true love living
In the shadow of the sun

The hopeless now lie crawling on their knees,
And who will lead with compassion in their hands?
Break, break away. Break from the past,
Break from everything you know

Take, take away. Take from the dead, they are living proof
Try to breathe the smoke-filled air haunted
By the voices of the dead
You will never win the war or wash
Away the blood that has been shed

The hopeless now lie crawling on their knees,
And who will lead with compassion in their hands?

Break, break away
Break from the past, break from everything you know.
Take, take away
Take from the dead, they are living proof

Break, break away
Break from the past, break from everything you know.
Take, take away
Take from this life–it’s the only fucking truth

To the cowards who sit back and watch
Fathers become a casualty notch
Where are they now the truth is out?
To the Mothers who grieve
And cry while their children fight back and die
where are they now the truth is out?

Break, break away
Break from the past, break from everything you know.
Take, take away
Take from the dead, they are living proof

Break, break away
Break from the past, break from everything you know.
Take, take away
Take from this life–it’s the only fucking truth