Battlefield

Wherever you are in the circle there's always something to learn
even death is a blessing--every stone has a time to turn
living, loving, dying, learning-- all these circles make a chain
and the battlefield's where the lessons all began

take me out to the battlefield
show me the rain and the blood and tell me how to heal
this is where it happens, where the lessons all are real
take me out to the battlefield

Here I am on top of the world, I'm on the twentieth floor
got my big ol' chair got my name on a big ol' plaque on the door
but there's a sickness in my spirit--before it drags me to the ground
I'm gonna get up on that chair, and I'm gonna take my name down