The One Who Won The War

She was thinking of the one who won the war
And wondered what it was he thought it was they fought it for
Among the maimed and dead who bled like ghosts on foreign shores
Holding onto shadows in the night

Whoever told you that enough is always more
While your heroes and your gods were slowly dying by the scores
On the back of taking what you thought you couldn't anymore
Holding onto shadows in the night

Searching for an answer in the light
Reaching out for anyone to tell you it's alright
Well, I don't know
I might be wrong
But it's alright

There's defeated expectations hiding in your pain
Like every hopeful dreamer you left screaming in the rain
With the love you showed from boxcars on the backs of burning trains
Holding onto shadows in the night

Every little death you die beneath the covers
Trying to receive who you believe to be another
Like cresting breaths that heaven flowed 'tween lips of drunken lovers
Holding onto shadows in the night

Searching for an answer in the light
Reaching out for anyone to tell you it's alright
Well, I don't know
I might be wrong
But it's alright
Yeah, it's alright
Ah, it's alright
It's alright