Are you certain You got your facts straight It's been a long time And the language may have changed Are you certain You trust your memory From a time when we Still believed in right and wrong Have you recorded all the casualties All the strategies Of this thirty-year war I remember How the prisoners Used to comfort me Even as I locked the cells I got to know them Their eccentricities Their family histories And who it was they used to be Back before all the casualties All the strategies Of this thirty-year war All they don't know Is that so long ago I was a prisoner in this very cell What they don't see Is the part of me That still wears the scars of criminality They don't identify me anymore I will not be another casualty Of my very own Thirty-year war