Liberty And Death - True Saiya-jin

Here I sit inside this shell
All I have our memories
My body blasted away
Yet I didn’t die for liberty

I fought so hard
To protect democracy
Democracy, which I will never see

I’m still alive
Yet I cannot see
I have no sight
Oh God

I’m still alive
Yet I cannot hear,
I have no sense of time
Oh dear God
Why do you not listen to me?

I cannot speak, and say “I love you”
Or hear your sweet words
My dear Kareen
My ties to you have been severed
Trapped inside this shell
This never ending, solitary hell

Liberty, Democracy
I will not live for thee
For you have taken everything
that I ever held dear to me

I’m screaming silently
Reaching for you
Outside world
Been inside myself for years
Calculating all my fears

You adorn the dead with your medals
But you do not know
I know all the dead shall know
I’m in a grave inside myself



Trapped in blackness
A madman
Converted your liberty
I am crying, desperately

I am nothing
Trapped in black
Oh, this body holds me back

Oh dear Kareen
You must not my face
For it is gone
Oh dear
Never come back to me

I am not worthy of you
For I have been unfaithful
I left in the morning sun
I clenched hold of my gun

All that you could give to me
Would not make me come back
For I have been unfaithful
I left you, an became drunk with liberty

Next time, he asks me to fight for empty words
I will find his voice absurd
I will turn away and go back to you, my dear Kareen
Next time, I’ll let them fight to be free

Wait….
What next time?
Oh God
I might as well rest with death

For I’m still alive
Yet I cannot hear,
I have no sense of time
Oh dear God
Why do you not listen to me?

I cannot speak, and say “I love you”
Or hear your sweet words
My dear Kareen
My ties to you have been severed
Because I can only dance among thoughts in blackness
Trapped inside this shell forever
This never ending, solitary hell

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Based on the book “Johnny Got His Gun” by Dalton Trumbo.

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