We killed a lot of innocent civilians in Baghdad
To us every civilian was a terrorist in Baghdad
That makes everybody free game
But if they came in our paremeter, we lit'em up
When we would search the corpse, we would find nothing
This took place
Time and time again, but that's okay, don't worry about it, because this
Is a new type of war, this is an eradication

Personally I believe we're committing genocide over here, I don't
Believe in killing civilians, and I'm not going to kill civilians for
The United States Marine Corp



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"Ashes of the Wake" as written by Blythe/morton/adler/campbell/adler

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    General Comment:I rather have a country that goes hating other countries but without doing anything significant than having a self-righteous country coming with deliverance, destroying "maybe" dangerous "enemies".
    The pretty smile and blue eyes of America don't fool me. Wars only exist due to leaders wanting the same thing, a resource or a piece of land. This expanding is the true face of evil which leads to countless massacres. Can't we all just be nostalgic, love our own country, stay there and put our filthy hands off others?
    If it were not due to this expanding, extremist-muslims would not even know about the very existence of America and would not attack it. Don't get me wrong, I think USA really believes to be doing the right thing, but the effect - the loss of people's lives - makes one wonder if this is what we really want.
    Flag Thundermaneon June 17, 2011   Link
  • 0
    Lyric Correction:These lyrics are wrong.
    It should go:
    They said 'these Fedayeen are now in civilian clothes' that makes everbody free game
    Flag CarnageCampon September 26, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:Actually U.S.A are NAZI with Iraq Like Germany with Jew. I'm from Québec in Canada and I think the english governament always been barbar. Like they kicked the french out of the Canada, like they kicked the mexican out of the states because it's wrong to think that the state always been english territory, about the half of the state most of the west part and the florida was the mexican territory. And now they commit a genocide in iraq to get the gasoline just like the 3rd song NOW YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING TO DIE FOR... look pathetic...

    Now the Song is fucking awsome concentrate on drum beat it's so fucking awsome... the guitar solo are GREAT too.
    Flag Acetycholinon February 01, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:gona join up 2 cant wait to get my hands on an M4 and put some 5.56 through sombodys skull watch thier fucking head explode into pink mushy pulp!
    Flagged thetruth173on September 07, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:ok ppl heres my personal veiw if you have anything to say about it go fuck urself like i said its my PERSONAL veiw i support the war if i was in power and someone attacked my country i wouldnt take it seriously terorist who bombed the wtc killed hundereds civilians everyones talking about US troops killin civilians but they forget about 911 we wouldnt be overthere if it wernt for the wtc bombin if u fuck with america then ur gona get ur ass kicked canada u can suck my huge american dick u know nothin!
    Flag jarhead173on June 15, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Evil. That's what this song is about.

    A man, a former Iraq war veteran who happened to have participated in the invasion itself spoke the lyrics in an interview. Lamb of God took it and showed in this song how it would have felt. The carpet bombing of Iraqi Cities, especially in the first part of the song after the first lyrics, was what I thought of.

    It's not just about that, it's the horrifying destruction that it causes, the rush of incredible, traumatizing, unimaginably horrifying violence that leaves people shooting and getting shot at scarred for their entire lifetimes in war.

    In other words, the pure evil of war. This song is supposed to help you feel it. And abhorre it.
    Flag Xystus234on June 14, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:btw ashes of the awake and yyz the fukn best instrumentals ever
    Flag blane0drain065on May 06, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:hey all you guys fighting on here are just bashing each other the whole time some people think some things others think other things but jesus christ people it a fucking song dont shit yourselfs over it in my opinion war is a terrible thing but i dont go bashin it because there are alot of brave men and women who have died and ive gone to a few funerals and its a sad thing that a mother who just lost her son has to leave his funeral only to be yelled at by a bunch of dicks for having alowed her son over there in the first place
    Flag blane0drain065on May 06, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Avandir, war is always wrong plain and simple. Yes however it is needed sometimes and is often the lesser of two evils. Yobo we are there because Bush is an idiot plain and simple he used war on terror as an excuse to invade Iraq. We should really be focusing on Afghanistan which is where the majority of them are hiding right now, the cartel in Mexico which could very well become a national threat soon, or even on Saudi Arabia where 20 of the 25 911 terrorists came from. Don't lump everyone who lives in the US into one group, a LOT of us don't support our reasons for being in Iraq.
    Flag unenon March 26, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:You can see simply from the comments on this song why there is war, people with different opinions express those opinions, and people with less than civilized ways of looking at things get offended and share their opinions, in the form of "You're gay, I'm right, you're wrong, go die", so then what happens? Those two people are in an argument over who is right and who is wrong. You know what happens when this escalates? The argument turns into hatred, the hatred turns into fighting.

    Now, what happens when this happens on a grander scale, of say, countries? The same thing happens, but it's called a "War"

    The world is the way it is, and people will always disagree with other people, or agree with others. There is nothing short of some supreme being taking away all rational thought and freewill.

    I am not for the war, but I do believe some wars are necessary, to everyone who thinks that war is a bad thing, would you retaliate if provoked by someone? How about if a friend was being attacked by someone? If someone was killing millions of innocent people because they were born with a different ancestry, like Hitler did?

    I believe the correct way to view is war is case by case, not blanket. War is never a good thing, but sometimes the good it causes outweighs the bad that it causes, in this war is that the case? Who knows, the war is not over yet, but at the rate it is going, the negative will far outweigh the positive, unless you're George Bush or George W. Bush, because then you finally got to see Hussein hang from his neck.

    I'm an American, by the way. And all you people who think that every American believes what the government or the President does, you should learn before you speak for other people.
    Flag SlayerMaggoton December 15, 2008   Link

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