Take Me Through the Night

Verse 1

Midnight call on the rotary phone

News from the front line cuts to the bone

Boots by the doorstep covered in red clay

Momma said hold on but I looked away

I remember the summer we ran through the fields

Chasing the sirens and the church bells ringing

Now the radio crackles a foreign name

And I'm counting the days till your letter comes home

Pre-Chorus

And the thunder rolls across the plains

But it's nothing like the storm you face

Chorus

War is a song that nobody wrote

Every mother learns the words by heart

War is a fire that won't let go

Burning through the letters and the scars

War war war

Take me through the night

Verse 2

Photograph folded in a breast pocket

Your smile frozen in a borrowed light

The pipeline hums where the trains used to run

And the crops turn brown where the battle was won

I drive to the depot past the empty mall

The flags snap sharp in the whitening air

Every windshield carries a red-white flower

Every prayer whispered is a silent prayer

Pre-Chorus

And the thunder rolls across the plains

But it's nothing like the storm you face

Chorus

War is a song that nobody wrote

Every mother learns the words by heart

War is a fire that won't let go

Burning through the letters and the scars

War war war

Take me through the night

Bridge

I'm saving the postcards you never sent

I'm keeping the rhythm of your heartbeat

One day the ceasefire will write itself

One day the white flag will finally rest

And I'll be waiting at the station gates

With bare hands and a heart full of ache

Guitar Solo

Chorus

War is a song that nobody wrote

Every mother learns the words by heart

War is a fire that won't let go

Burning through the letters and the scars

War war war

Take me through the night

Outro

Take me through the night

Take me through the night

War war war

Take me home