“War!” is the ninth and final track on (and lead single from) Zach Callison’s debut EP, A Picture Perfect Hollywood Heartbreak. It was originally set to be released on January 5th. However, it was delayed to the 12th because Callison was, “too sick to release it [that week].”
In an interview with T...
[Intro]
(That's alright, that's okay)
[Verse 1]
A wise man once said "Time is money"
So how much money did I lose to you, honey?
I find it kinda funny, you wanna keep this feud running
But I'm glad I'm on your mind
So keep that cannon fire coming, woo
Okay, right, let's fight in the late night
For a while, go wild, this is juvenile as skate night
You don't know how to play nice
My little Chiquita, señorita, Juanita
Apple of my eye
In the eye of the storm
Guns and bombs to keep us torn
Least your napalm will keep me warm
To your new boy let he be warned
You're her new toy for blood and gore
(What, you didn't know?)
[Chorus]
So this is war!
Isn't that what love is for?
Blood and gore
Is all I get for being yours
Two heathens ruled by demons
That sneak through the trenches in our hearts
Oh no, no, no, no
No surrender from the day we part
I'll be damned if I can't finish what I start
[Instrumental Break]
Oh, oh, oh, ow!
[Verse 2]
Oh, so you wanna go to war now
Gonna resume your tour now
Lusting for my heart and tear out some more now
Bustin' out the charts and oxen carts
The moment we start to fall apart to the core, wow
These guns are loud like thunderclouds
So I leave for underground to flee the sound
Of music, your music
Your music that you use as war music
Them idyllic days are over, I'm composing more music
Than you, you choose: use it or lose it
Expression as a weapon, I do choose to abuse it
Check the presses on my record, feel where my grooves is
Talk about depression and chemical abuses
And nooses, feelin' useless
Hey take this, you could use it
But you'd probably break it, cry 'bout how you'll never make it
Goodness gracious, we've been waiting on your album for ages
No traces, and baby, they already ran outta patience
[Juanita]
What?
[Zach]
Juanita, we're still waiting...
[Refrain]
But that's alright, that's okay, you barely wrote 'em anyway
Half your songs got thrown away like ballots on voting day
Oh, my ballads got more to say like a bullet to a motorcade
[Verse 3]
Sit down with me and sign this armistice
Get your big proboscis outta my shit, miss
The litmus of our difference is you going hitless
While my record's spinning like a discus
Throwing shitfits while I go the distance
Welcome to the new me, paint your nails black and unscrew me
But that's okay Juanita, know my business is booming
Live vicariously through me
Just as embarrassing as it was when you knew me
Slander, propaganda? Groovy
[Chorus]
'Cause this is war
Isn't that what love is for
(You feel me?)
Blood and gore
Is all I get for being yours
Two heathens ruled by demons
That sneak through the trenches in our hearts
Oh no, no, no, no
No surrender from the day we part
I'll be damned if I can't finish what I start
[Bridge]
(That's alright, that's okay)
(That's alright, that's okay)
(That's alright, that's okay)
(That's alright, that's okay)
(That's alright, that's okay)
(That's alright, that's okay)
(That's alright, that's okay)
(That's alright, that's okay)
Ah, you barely wrote em anyway
[Outro]
Oh
C'mon now
You barely wrote 'em, barely wrote 'em anyway
Ha-ha-ha, hat's alright, that's okay baby
This is what you wanted, right?
Sing
You barely wrote 'em anyway, that's alright that's okay
C'mon, we're coming for ya
Juanita, Juanita, Juanita, Juanita, Juanita, Juanita, Juanita, ahh
War! was written by Zach Callison.
War! was produced by Zach Callison & Anthony Mazza & Chase Ryan.
Zach Callison released War! on Sat Jan 13 2018.