Flobots - Good Soldier lyrics

Today, you don't have to be a soldier
Don't have to be a soldier, stand down
It's okay to be as you were
Be as you were again

Is it a scheme? Is it a vision? Is
It a dream? Is it a nightmare?
Or is it a competition, and if it is
What if we don't fight fair?
What's bald in the morning
But in the evening has white hairs?
What's the cause of Global Warming
And could it be these things right here?
I got an idea that might not
Reach anyone for another light year
Got a hit list and a cloud of witnesses
Which is pricier?
Well my tears are mightier than my fears
So mighty Earth
Provides me hurt that I keep buried
Until I convert it to writing
I was wounded, I was injured
I was made to move to Denver
I was taken through a new adventure
Paint stripped from it's first fixture

I was placed in another picture
I was rushed to a new landscape
And ripped away from family scraped
Into a politician's mistake

And what's left of talents
In chests beneath oceans
Welled up behind eyelids has
Yet to be salvaged a world of emotions
A guess that it might be okay
That it could be alright, if expressed

Today, you don't have to be a soldier
Don't have to be a soldier, stand down
It's okay to be as you were
Be as you were again

Am I a woman raised
Man machine damaging everything
I touch by not caring enough or too much?
Am I a far-flung fantasy setting free enmity
And making friends from enemies and
Bridges for the in betweens?

For the highwayman on the low road
The tired back with a large load
The trials spanned 'til I found hope
And I found more when I slow-moed

Enough of the back to face front
Let those in the pack of the race run
I'm needing an evener pace, one
Too hasty makes mistakes

Can you carry a song as strong as your arms
Can bear that you keep from harm?
And it will be there when you go wrong
Make a heart from your bond
Your treasure's right here

And what's left of talents
In chests beneath oceans
Welled up behind eyelids has
Yet to be salvaged a world of emotions
A guess that it might be okay
That it could be all right if expressed today

Today you don't have to be a soldier
Don't have to be a soldier, stand down
It's okay to be as you were
Be as you were again