Ballista lyrics

I toiled through mental wastelands With a vow to avenge Restitution through carnage On a quest to quench the pain Lock and load I proposed a new beginning We rejoiced in sworn allegiance We wallowed in the resurrection of hope The intent was to demolish To trace a death refined I shot for extinction And aimed to leave nothing behind Lock and load I proposed a new beginning We rejoiced in sworn allegiance We wallowed in the resurrection of hope Violence and mass destruction All hail the violent reconstruction The rotten stench of human debris Distinctive trails of postwar casualties Lock and load I proposed a new beginning We rejoiced in sworn allegiance We wallowed in the resurrection of hope Content at last, residing on bloodstained ground And as the vapour falls and in the aftermath of combat I close my eyes and I dream and I remember