Raise a glass to a long long life

A life filled with tragedy and sorrow

Raise a glass to a childhood taken

One we never got

Raise a glass to the ones we had to hurt

For the ways of our people

Raise a glass to war

A game we play every day

Raise a glass to our scars and demons

The ones who still live in us today

Raise a glass to every time you lifted a gun to your head

Noose to your neck, or blade to your throat

Raise a glass to future where there isn't a promise of tomorrow

Raise a glass to the loneliness of eternity

Raise a glass to an experience that no mortal will ever live

Raise a glass to next we meet on the bloody battlefield