500 Days....Thousand Yard Stare

Song lyric from the metal band in my head

When the darkness falls like a shadowed shroud
And the truth is obscured by darkness and clouds
Rain hammers down from a clear blue sky
Driving you under and you can't reason why

Over the top in your world all alone
Shot down like a dog in a garden of stone

Tracers light the sky but your eyes don't see
Wondering how all the bad came to be
Overwhelmed by emotions you shut it all down
The king of confusion with a hand-me-down crown

A man in the trenches with the thousand yard stare
The miseries of guilt is the cross you bear
The silence closes in on your permanent night
Steals the sunrise and hope from your sight

Thunder and rain curse the crimson field
Look over no mans land and your fate is sealed
Ordered to go, bullets all around you
The haunted shadows of the midnight blue