READY 4 WAR - LYRICS

VERSE 1

I WOKE UP SHAKING
MY BONES WERE ACHING
MY MIND WAS BREAKING
IT’S NOT FOR THE TAKING
I WAS THE ONE
WHO SURVIVED THE SLAUGHTER
THEY KILLED MY WIFE
AND THEY RAPED MY DAUGHTER
MY MOUTH’S SO DRY
I WOULD KILL FOR WATER
LEAST MY WIFE KILLED ONE
JUST LIKE THE WAY I TAUGHT HER
THEY KILLED THE ELDERS
AND ALL THE DRUIDS
AND LEFT THEM TO ROT
LIKE HUMAN SEWAGE
THE GROUND WAS SOAKED
WITH HOLY FLUIDS
REVENGE IS IN MY HEART
I’M INSANE WITH VENGEANCE
BLOOD CRIES OUT
AND I WILL AVENGE IT
I WILL SPARE NO ONE
OF ANY AGE OR GENDER
FROM THE POOR SLAVE
TO THE DRAPED IN SPLENDOUR
A THORN WILL BE PUT
IN THIS ROMAN AGENDA
BRITAINS MY HOME
AND I’LL DIE TO DEFEND HER
WE HELD A TRIBAL COUNCIL
BY THE SACRED MOUNTAIN
AND DRANK FROM THE SPRING
OF THE HOLY FOUNTAIN
UNITED AS ONE
TO RID OUR LAND OF CEASAR.

VERSE 3

THE STRIKE DID HAPPEN
WITH NO COMPASSION
SWORDS WERE SLASHING
AND AXES HACKING
A MORNING RAID
ON THE NEAREST ENCAMPMENT
THE THOUGHT OF BLOODLUST
IN MY MIND WAS RAMPANT
WE CHARGED THE SOLDIERS
OUR BLADES WERE FLASHING
BONES WERE CRACKING
AND HEADS WERE SMASHING
WE CAUGHT THEM NAPPING
WHO’S THIS ATTACKING?
STABBED A SOLDIER
WITHOUT MERCY
HE LOOKED IN MY EYES
BEFORE HE DIED
HE CURSED ME
I SWEAR THE SPIRIT
OF OUR LEADER CARACTACUS
FOUGHT, BLED, DIED
AND ATTACKED WITH US
ON THAT DAY THE EMPIRE
BOWED DOWN TO US
QUEEN BOADICEA WOULD
BE MIGHTY PROUD OF US
MAYBE HOPE WILL STOP FADING
TO STOP THE INVADING
WITH SIMILAR RAIDING
OUR LUCK MIGHT BE CHANGING
WE WON THE BATTLE
WITH MANY KILLED
BUT TOO MUCH BLOOD
ON THIS LAND WE SPILLED
AND THE HOLE IN OUR SOUL
CAN NEVER BE FILLED.


VERSE 3

THEY SAW OUR HIGH SPIRITS
STRUCK THE VILLAGE
THEY CAME PREPARED
TOOK US UNAWARES
NO TIME TO BE SCARED
HOPE THE GOD’S HEARD OUR PRAYERS
OUR DAYS OF CHEER
TURNED IN SECONDS TO FEAR
REPRISALS WILL BE SEVERE
SWIFT AND MADE CLEAR
THERE’S NO MERCY FOR UPRISING
WAS HARDLY SURPRISING
THEY KILLED EVERY MALE
FROM BABIES TO THE FRAIL
THE LEGIONAIRE STOOD AND WAITED
HE’D HESITATED
HE WAS ONLY YOUNG
COULD HAVE BEEN MY SON
KILLING HIM WAS NO FUN
BUT IT HAD TO BE DONE
THERE’S NO ROOM FOR COMPASSION
WHEN YOUR LIFE IS FLASHING
BEFORE YOU EYES
WE FOUGHT FOR OUR ISLAND
AND WE PAYED THE PRICE
AS I SLIPPED AWAY
I REMEMBER MY WIFE
WITH RUMOURS AND TALES
FROM ACROSS THE SEA
OF A MAN WHO DIED FOR YOU AND ME
THIS WAS MY WOMAN
AND SHE NEVER LIED
I’LL MAYBE MEET ‘EM BOTH
ON THE OTHER SIDE.


CHORUS

GONNA TAKE ‘EM ON
GONNA BREAK THEIR BONES
GONNA BURN THEIR HOMES
HOW COME?
‘CAUSE I’M READY 4 WAR NOW!
TIME TO OFFEND
AND AVENGE
FAMILY AND FRIENDS
WHEN WILL IT END?
WHEN THEY BOW DOWN!
WHEN THEY BOW DOWN!
WHEN THEY BOW DOWN!
WHEN THEY BOW DOWN!
THEY BETTER BOW DOWN!!