[Verse 1] All my life leading up to this Foreign in the street kids While my mother and my father are watching it [Verse 2] Twenty nights say you're twenty five Thats the company line But a lion's just a lion with the fight out of it [Pre-Chorus] See me shake in my tired old frame Borrow white suit My eyes staring knives at you [Chorus] Saying this is a war This is a war This is a war Between my body and my heart This is a war Between integrity and art [Verse 3] s** my blood Get your teeth in deep Theres some left in me But I'm getting pretty old and I will cease to be [Verse 4] Do you hear How the orchestra breaks Every line of space Every minute, every second that I put in place [Pre-Chorus] See me shake in my tired old frame Borrow white suit My eyes staring knives at you [Chorus] Saying this is a war This is a war This is a war Between my body and my heart This is a war Between integrity and art [Outro] This is a war Between my body and my heart This is a war Between integrity and art This is a war This is a war This is a war This is a war