Here in the trenches
the fist of the Beast
For fear of an atmosphere
poisoned deceased
With a gas mask to keep me
from breathing my death
It's American soil
I hope for at best

But the duty I serve
can't begin to compare
To my ancestors battles
and wars through the years
Though the loneliness strikes
like an enemy shell
I pray for my home
but still sit here in hell.

[Chorus:]
Sail away to a place that's unknown
Taken away from my friends and my home
To a place they call sacred
A place I call hell
I long for that corner I once knew so well.

Go to the grind
it's all that I have
Work on and on
with nothing to show
But a graying face
in this dying place
That's a lock in my solitude
I think of a place
on a faraway coast
Where friends are so dear
and there's reason to toast
A cloudy image
of a Middle East land
Comes down and wrecks
my hopeful thoughts.

Sail away to a place that's unknown
Taken away from my friends and my home
To a place they call sacred
A place I call hell
I long for that corner I once knew so well.

Here in the trenches
the fist of the Beast
For fear of an atmosphere
poisoned deceased
With a gas mask to keep me
from breathing my death
It's American soil
I hope for at best

But the duty I serve
can't begin to compare
To my ancestors battles
and wars through the years
Though the loneliness strikes
like an enemy shell
I pray for my home
but still sit here in hell.

Sail away to a place that's unknown
Taken away from my friends and my home
To a place they call sacred
A place I call hell
I long for that corner I once knew so well.

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