Some had no choice but to fight  Our lives were over  The moment we saw our number on the screen    While others signed their lives away  For their fathers and their country  And fear of how they would be seen    So gather all your strength  Summon up the blood  Now we will find out  What we're really made of    Right now    Took us apart piece by piece  Put us back together  With cold steel in our hands and in our hearts    Dropped us down in a pit of hell  A million shades of green  And on all sides the killing starts    [chorus]  IN THESE DAYS OF DESTRUCTION  WE ALL BECOME THE MONSTERS  THAT WE FEARED IN CHILDHOOD DREAMS  IN THESE DAYS OF DESTRUCTION  THE FIRST LESSON WE LEARN  IS THAT NO ONE'S HANDS ARE CLEAN    And the letters you wrote  I had to burn them all  The boy you knew  Couldn't read them at all    I lost him along the line  Between here and there  I've searched all over  And can't find him anywhere    We can't be blamed for what we've done  Politics and morals  As foreign now as any luxury    And what's left can never come home  Forever searching  To find our lost humanity    [chorus]