What Did You Do in the War, Dad? - Sonata Arctica

Dad what did you do in the war

Something to answer for

You say too young I am to know

Dad I've heard you cry at night

Mournful and desperate blight

Where did you learn that song you sing

War is in me I was the war

And your prying brings back the suffering

No please don't start to cry

I only pray you'll never know

The things I see every time

I close my eyes

Angels still have faces

What did you do in the war

Dad tell me

Why can't you smile when the children sing

Did the wages of war cut your soaring wings

And your soul is now torn unlike mine

Do you fear yesterday will in someway

Define the life of your child

Dad I know what you did in the war

Deeds devils would abhor

Did you fulfil the oath you swore

Dad did you do it for me

Their blood for my life to live

In the hollow without reprieve

Without you

War is in me I am the war

Don't you force me to

Live the nightmare again

I'm sorry

Please don't make me cry

My son you never ever want to know

How when guarding your sleep serene I hear

The silence of the children who sang

Far and beyond the stars there's

A place where all the love

All the goodness we could have still resides

But we choose life away from the light

You can find ghosts of

Loss in the gaze of your

Beautiful child