From the start of life To your dying day In the dark of night And in the burning light of day It's a bloody fight And you can't walk away There's no rest in sight And I struggle just to slave I'm tired of living on the front line Of this [chorus] Unholy war, unholy war We try, we fight, until we die Unholy war, unholy war You see, you know, you'll always be Unholy I see your burning fuse From a mile away You take the world's abuse Then you bow your head in shame You gotta learn to bite the hand That pulls your chain There's too much sanity It will make you go insane I'll fight when we're all on the same side Of this Unholy war, unholy war We try to fight until we die Unholy When you're all alone - unholy With your thoughts of pain - unholy You're a burning fuse - unholy Can you break the strings? - unholy You're shaking in your boots You met your end today (? ) Try walking in my shoes You'll see we've all got hell to pay And we got battle wounds In the lion's cage We'll all be w's Beneath the numbers on the page (? ) As we cry til the battle is over