The Love Below Lyrics

21 years behind that desk, with 21 more to go

Scratch tooth and nail for a better cell, but deep down somewhere I know

That all of this is a private hell, I can feel it in my bones

And then an ex-wife, and a long flight, lets me know where I belong

The grip and thirst that drives the love below

A warm embrace under the endless night

All that we desire from the love below

The wretched filth for which we fight and die

We build upon the ruins of these long forgotten tombs

Without daylight or a respite, we carve our place in a callous world

A promised land for those without, the exiled now call their home

And still the outcast, become the steadfast, so the weary no longer roam

The grip and thirst that drives the love below

A warm embrace under the endless night

All that we desire from the love below

The wretched filth for which we fight and die

Lest thee forget who brought you here, there's an homage to be paid

You pledge devotion and resignation to the path that has been laid

And as you load those guns remember why, you have joined this rare brigade

Protect the sacred, the obliterated, all they've tried to eradicate

And under a blackened sky, no longer terrified

The power that we know, we are the love below