This Is Why We Fight

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From a 2010 article in Spin: The track closes with a raw recording of a woman singing about her dog running through a field, accompanied by banjo and harmonica. It sounds… Read More

Jan. 14, 20111 viewer10.3K views

This Is Why We Fight Lyrics

Come the war
Come the avarice
Come the war
Come hell

Come attrition
Come the reek of bones
Come attrition
Come hell

[Chorus]
This is why
Why we fight
Why we lie awake
And this is why
This is why we fight

When we die
We will die
With our arms unbound

[Chorus]
And this is why
This is why
Why we fight
Come hell

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Bride of quiet
Bride of all unquiet things
Bride of quiet
Bride of hell

Come the archers
Come the infantry
Come the archers
Of hell

[Chorus]
This is why
Why we fight
Why we lie awake
This is why
This is why we fight

And when we die
We will die
With our arms unbound
And this is why
This is why we fight
Come hell
Come hell

[Chorus]
This is why
Why we fight
Why we lie awake
This is why
This is why we fight

When we die
We will die with our arms unbound
And this is why
This is why we fight

So come to me
Come to me now
Lay your arms around me
And this is why
This is why
We fight
Come hell
Come hell
Come hell
Come hell

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From a 2010 article in Spin:

The track closes with a raw recording of a woman singing about her dog running through a field, accompanied by banjo and harmonica. It sounds like an ancient Alan Lomax field recording, but it’s actually members Chris Funk and Jenny Conlee jamming on a porch with the studio owner, Sherry Pendarvis. ‘She was sitting out front with her dog,’ says [lead singer Colin] Meloy. ‘She had just been to the vet and she was soaking the dog’s paw and started making up this song.’