What goes on in the mind of soldier?

Automatic is a spiritual take on the horrors of war from a soldier's point of view. It's up to the listener to decide whether the narrator is dying, still alive, engaged in battle, in hiding, injured or perhaps already deceased. Who is "she"... An ang

Can anyone who has never been out there on the front lines actually imagine what it is like to have to be there? The fear, the adrenaline, the ruthlessness, the inevitability and the physcial and emotional pain. The song has been written in such a way

It's hard to see through dust and bones
Beneath my feet the friends I'll never know
It's hard to breathe where flowers grow
Beneath the sheets is where I'm lying low

Here she comes to carry me home again
Shining like the sun
One by one, watching the lights go out
Life had just begun
It's automatic
What's done is done

It's hard to know which way I should go
When I closed my eyes, I should've have turned and run
It's hard to breathe where flowers grow
Beneath the sheets is where I'm lying low

Here she comes to carry me home again
Shining like the sun
One by one, watching the lights go out
Life had just begun
It's automatic
What's done is done

Oh, we are the lucky ones
So, if you love someone
Just let them believe...