Craig's Brother - Thousand Yard Stare lyrics

Now I'm home but I don't care Cause my mind is still over there Re-enacting scenes of horror and d**h. And this blind, bleak despair Like I'm running out of air Growing heavier with every breath. When at last I thought I'd escaped from the nightmare It seems I just can't purge my thoughts of those who fell Giving their lives to advance the plans of a war contractor Sometime I wish that I had died there... (chorus) I can see but I just don't care Eyes glazed over in the thousand yard stare. If I could speak for those who speak no more I couldn't tell you what they gave their lives for. Was it freedom? Democracy? Was it misguided policy, Lashing out in blind irrational fear Till we can't see our enemies From the innocent casualties In the crosshairs of a war profiteer (chorus) I can see miles from here. I can see all the pain and the despair of arbitrary war. I can see, I can hear, but I'm miles away from here There's no coming up for air from the thousand yard stare And this desperation feels like I'm running out of air And my countenance is frozen in the thousand yard stare