10th Man Down

Nightwish · Lokikirja [2010]

Today I killed, he was just a boy

Eight before him, I knew them all

In the fields a dying oath:

I'd kill them all to save my own



Cut me free

Bleed with me

Oh, no

One by one

We will fall

Down down

Pull the plug

End the pain

Gonna fight for life

Hold on tight

This ain't my fight



Deliver me from this war

It's not for me it's because of you

Devil's instant my eternity

Obey to kill to save yourself



Cut me free...



I envy the 9 lives that gave me hell

My path made up by their torn bodies

Man to man, soldier to soldier, dust to dust

Call me a coward but I can't take it anymore



They wait for me back home

They live with eyes turned away

They were the first ones to see

They are the last ones to bleed



The ultimate high as all beautiful dies

A ruler's tool, priest's excuse, tyrant's delight...

I alone, the great white hunter

I'll march till the dawn brings me rest

10th patriot at the gallow's pole!



Cut me free...