Lights Out

Faintly fading sirens in my ear
 I guess that we survived another year
 The lights are blowing circuits in my brain
 I don't yet know the damage I've sustained
 I put my life into a suitcase yesterday
 Rolled it down the hall and then went on my way
 Is this lights out? Cause I'm not ready to go down yet
 Lights out and I won't soon forget how good it's been
 The streets outside are buzzing day and night
 The television tells us why we fight
 But I don't care about who's wrong or right
 I just want to see her face tonight
 I lit a candle for my loved ones back at home
 Set upon the task that only I alone can do
 I've stumbled through that dark place
 in my mind and find those memories
 Still stacked along the back of that old head of mine
 That's the way that I remember much of these early years