"We Burn" - Track 1 off The Tank by The War I Survived

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Patience lost, tempers rise
We built these walls to keep this quiet
We burn
Fears and whispers spread like fire
They get out and they run wild
We Burn
We burn

We're all burned and we're all tired
We've lost our homes and our desires
We burn
Our minds are tender, can we decide
There is hope through the fire
We burn
We burn

Take me now

This is the beginning of the album. We are tested through many trials and tribulations in our lives, and this becomes a refining fire that tests our very soul, and let's our true nature boil to the surface. This is the beginning of your journey, and sets the tone for your story, your entire being. This is your life.

The song starts at the early stage of the adult mind, when we start letting our fears guide us into a retreat, and we wall ourselves off from others in an attempt to make a safe haven. Once those barriers go up, the communication breaks down, and this is when the hypothetical argument in our head, the fears and whispers, the paranoia that runs rampant through our daily thoughts, guides us further into a bitter retreat. This leads to the next stage.

When we are caught up in our retreat from that hypothetical enemy leading you away from where you imagined yourself as a child, and your taken further down the hole, you give up. You are defeated, and taken away from everything you wanted in life. It is in this moment that you get to make a decision. Hope or despair. You can keep retreating, or you can fight your way back. There is hope, that in these trials and tribulations, you were equipped with something that you didn't even realize. A special gift, something that makes you different from everyone else in the world, and allows you to share your experience with others. You are a rare gem, formed by the fire of every experience you've had, good or bad.

The last, and most important part. This is what happens next, after you've decided to fight back, to not give up, and after you've reached all your goals. What do you do? You get to lay it all down. You get to give all that you are, and have become for your brothers and sisters around you. There is no greater love, than lying down your life for your friends. For this, I am ready, take me now.

This has been an in-depth look into the first track of "The Tank", We Burn.



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