War All The Time Lyrics - War All The Time - Thursday

Standing on the edge of the palisades cliffs 

In the shadow of the skyline very far away 

A lightning rod that couldn't pull the storm from me 

I was 5 years old my best friends older brother died 

He fell from these cliffs 

The river washed him away the current pulled him downstream 

In our eyes, floating in the headlights, so we parked these cars 

Parent's garage 

Listen to the lullaby 

Of Carbon Monoxide 

War all of the time 

In the shadow of the New York skyline 

We grew up too fast falling apart 

Like the ashes of American flags 

The sun doesn't rise 

We replaced it with an h-bomb explosion 

A painted jail cell of blood in the sky like Three Mile Island 

Nightmares on TV they used to sing us to sleep 

They burn on and on like an oil field 

Or a memory of what it felt like 

To burn on and on and not just fade away 

All those nights in the basement the kids are still screaming 

On and on and on and on 

War all of the time 

In the shadow of the New York skyline 

We grew up too fast falling apart 

Like the ashes of American flags 

And we're blowing in the wind 

We don't know where to land 

So we kiss like little kids 

We used to be very tall buildings 

We've been falling for so long 

Now your eyes follow the sign on the edge of town 

They offer a welcome when you are leaving 

War all of the time 

In the shadow of the New York skyline 

We grew up too fast falling apart 

Like the ashes of American flags 

The pieces fall it's like a last day parade 

And the fires in our streets start to rage, 

so wave, to the people that long to wave back, 

from the fabric of a flag that sang "love all of the time"