Standing on the edge of the palisades cliffs 

In the shadow of the skyline very far away 

A lightning rod that couldn't pull the storm from me

I was 5 years old my best friends older brother died

He fell from these cliffs

The river washed him away the current pulled him downstream

In our eyes, floating in the headlights, so we parked these cars 

Parent's garage 

Listen to the lullaby

Of Carbon Monoxide



War all of the time

In the shadow of the New York skyline

We grew up too fast falling apart

Like the ashes of American flags

The sun doesn't rise 

We replaced it with an h-bomb explosion

A painted jail cell of blood in the sky like Three Mile Island

Nightmares on TV they used to sing us to sleep

They burn on and on like an oil field

Or a memory of what it felt like 

To burn on and on and not just fade away

All those nights in the basement the kids are still screaming

On and on and on and on 



War all of the time

In the shadow of the New York skyline

We grew up too fast falling apart

Like the ashes of American flags

And we're blowing in the wind

We don't know where to land

So we kiss like little kids

We used to be very tall buildings

We've been falling for so long 

Now your eyes follow the sign on the edge of town



War all of the time

In the shadow of the New York skyline

We grew up too fast falling apart

Like the ashes of American flags

The pieces fall it's like a last day parade

And the fires in our streets start to rage, 

so wave, to the people that long to wave back, 

from the fabric of a flag that sang "love all of the time"



War all the time War all the time

All of the time

War all the time

War all the time

All of the time 

All of the time 

War all of the time [Repeat: x4]