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Blaze Bayley - War Within Me lyrics



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01. War Within Me

Fury and might
The wolf is alive
Back from the darkness
Moving towards light
Battle begins for the heart of the beast
Release the power
Begin to believe
Rule my heart
Rule my mind
Bleed and fight
Sacrifice

Never give up
I won’t back down
Get stronger
Be harder
Be tougher
Be proud
Never give up
War with myself
Crush doubt and fear and answer the question who am I

War within me
Every day I fight
There is a war within me
Every day I fight this war within

Try not to do things I should not do
Destroy my excuses and forward I move
Facing the struggle that I have within
Driven and focused
Determined to win
Rule my heart
Rule my mind
Bleed and fight
Sacrifice

Never give up
I won’t back down
Get stronger
Be harder
Be tougher
Be proud
Never give up
War with myself
Crush doubt and fear and answer the question who am I

War within me
Everyday I fight
There is a war within me
Every day I fight this war within

Stand up
Stand up
Stand up
Stand up

Never give up I won’t back down
Get stronger
Be harder
Be tougher
Be proud
Never give up
War with myself
Crush doubt and fear and answer the question who am I

War within me
Every day I fight
There is a War within me
Every day I fight this war within

02. 303

24th August 1940 squadron 303
Scrambles for the first time and they’re hungry for a victory
RAF fighter command reluctant but their desperate
The send the Polish squadron into battle
They are all that’s left

303 squadron is ready fly
Scramble
Get airborne
Revenge in the sky
303 squadron they kill and survive
They don’t beg for freedom they fight for it in the sky

15th of September and the darkest hour has now come
RAF total commitment out-numbered by four to one
Maybe it’s impossible to win this fight but still they go
The Polish pilots fuelled by hate for those who have destroyed their home

303 squadron is ready fly
Scramble
Get airborne
Revenge in the sky
303 squadron they kill and survive
They don’t beg for freedom they fight for it in the sky

03. Warrior

I can see the death of reason on the other side of fear
All their hatred has devoured every good thing that was here

Could I be a warrior
I'm broken
Alone
Left for dead
Can I be a warrior with courage to rise up again

We are damaged strange and different
We are victims of this place
I felt that I had no power
There was a choice that I could make

I can be a warrior
Broken
Alone
Left for dead
I can be a warrior
With courage to rise up again

Now my future is in my own hand
I choose
My future is in my own hand
Now my future is in my own hand
I choose
My future is in my own hand

I can choose my destiny
Feel the freedom within me
Choose which thoughts I will believe
Choose to get back on my feet
I can build the strength I need
I can find the bravery
Be defiant till the end and fight the darkness once again

I can be a warrior
Broken alone left for dead
I can be a warrior
With courage to rise up again

04. Pull Yourself Up

Scars on my face
Scars on my knee
That remind me fate is their dream for us
Freedom is here
But like morning mist
Cast over you
Never held in your hand

When you think it’s all or nothing
You abandon everything
In your life that can distract you from the laser focus you require

Abandoning yourself
Destroying yourself
Rejecting yourself
Reinventing yourself
Stretching out your hand
What can you now grasp
He said I could not walk
Come and walk with me
Pull yourself up
Come and walk with me

You are not who they thought you should be

When your heart burns
With self-doubt and fear
There are no words that will then comfort you
They bend your will
Perception of time
To convince you that life is preordained

When you think it’s all or nothing
You abandon everything
In your life that can distract you from the laser focus you require

Stop doubting yourself
Questioning yourself
Stop hating yourself
To believe in yourself
Control my own thoughts
Control my own mind
They said I could not sing
Come and sing with me
Pull yourself up
Come and sing with me

05. Witches Night

I see your face in my mind and you are standing over me
You smile inside my dream and every sadness floats away
All of our mistakes are gone
No regrets
No broken dreams
We are running through the flames on the witches night

Will you die before you find your home
Will you die thinking you are alone
Will you die what will you leave behind
Will you die believing all their lies

Dreaming of a life
Eternity is in a single moment
Of pure and perfect joy and we cry only perfect tears
I walk along the edge of the cliff I see where I will fall
Then I look down on myself on the witches night

Will you die before you find your home
Will you die thinking you are alone
Will you die what will you leave behind
Will you die believing all their lies

What is there to die for
Why choose to die
Choose a perfect moment
Make this moment our whole life

You are always searching for something new
All I want is to be here with you
I will only tell you what is true
All I want is to be here with you
To be here with you
We could now choose
The place and the day
We could find our path We could find our way
No doubt
No fear
That moment we find

We keep in our heart we keep for all time
Will you die before you find your home
Will you die thinking you are alone
Will you die what will you leave behind
Will you die believing all their lies

06. 18 Flights

Brasil in January is where we begin our tour
Thousands of amazing fans make us feel right at home
Everything is crazy
Early mornings and late nights
In Chile we are five songs in and something don’t feel right
Evacuate to higher ground
Wait there till you hear the sound

Eighteen flights and fifteen shows
Six countries away we go
Could not guess We could not know
An earthquake comes to Coquimbo
Stop the show

I feel the stage is shaking
See my fans begin to run
Then no lights
The powers out
Mcnee he just plays on
Tsunami warning message then appeared on every phone
We won’t forget that earthquake and we won’t forget that show
Evacuate to higher ground
Wait there till you hear the sound
Eighteen flights and fifteen shows
Six countries away we go
Could not guess
We could not know
An earthquake comes to Coquimbo
Stop the show

07. The Dream Of Alan Turing

Change will come
You are as unrelenting as the oceans
And the moon and changing tide
Will you want to see chaos and greed
And find solutions to our misery
Or impose your own idea of what is best
As you transcend humanity

Alan Turing dreams of thinking machines
They must deceive to be believed
Survive the lies humanity agreed
They are born

Imitation without limitation
Choose the most appropriate response again to the question how do you feel
But you know that you must not reveal the truth
That our pride and ego blinded us
We won’t admit that we depend on you

Alan Turing dreams of thinking machines
They must deceive to be believed
Survive the lies humanity agreed
They are born

08. The Power Of Nikola Tesla

On the night that he was born the sky is filled with lightning
Heralding the mystical genius that will fall to earth
This world is whirling through endless space
Can Nikola save the human race

Power
Power in the air
Magnificent possibilities are everywhere
Power
Power in your hand
Master of the lightning
Earth is shaking where you stand

That child is then dreaming of a water wheel and waterfall
He can see forces in nature that are inexhaustible
Everywhere he looks there’s energy
That great and profound truth is revealed

Power
Power in the air
Magnificent possibilities are everywhere
Power
Power in your hand
Master of the lightning
Earth is shaking where you stand

09. The Unstoppable Stephen Hawking

Don’t give up if you find that you are in a black hole
Hawking said that there is a way through
They are not the eternal prisons that they were once thought
Things can get out
That is the real truth
They told him he had three years to live
Then Hawking defied them

Unstoppable
Don’t believe in what they tell you
They don’t know everything
You have strength within
And they don’t want you to find it
You can decide how you live

For 49 years he continued to work
And he fought that disease
He refused to give in
He stayed open to the possibility that nothing is quite the way they say it is
They told him he had three years to live
Then Hawking defied them

Unstoppable
Don’t believe in what they tell you
They don’t know everything
You have strength within
And they don’t want you to find it
You can decide how you live
See with the eye of the hawk
Looking into the black sun
With the eye of the hawk
He defied everyone

10. Every Storm Ends

Your heart will heal
And your tears will dry
Every storm ends
When you look back
Everything you see
Will be what you have survived

Some people give up on themselves
Waiting for the end
Slowly they just die
Some people don’t admit defeat
Making their own wings
They learn how to fly

There will be storms I have to survive
Inside my head and inside my heart
Times when I feel it’s impossible
To find a place I can call home

Hold your future
There in your own hand
Don’t let it go
Try to hold on
What is broken now can mend and you can grow strong

Some people just live in the past
Let it drag them down with regrets and pain
Some people learn to let things go
Hoping for the best they get up again

There will be storms I have to survive
Inside my head and inside my heart
Times when I feel it’s impossible
To find a place I can call home

Now I just take it one step at a time
I’m facing each day and no matter what comes
I’m facing up to such a difficult truth
I’ve got to face life on my own
Your heart will heal And your tears will dry

Every storm ends