Mark Erelli - Shadowland lyrics

In the darkness I look in their eyes and I do my best I'm a long, long way from the Midwest At this checkpoint post tonight So it's lock and load When a bomb goes off by the side of the road And a buddy of mine with a new wife at home Disappears in a flash of light And we're off to save the day Now there'll be hell to pay In Shadowland There is no evidence of any plan Just a boy with a rifle in his hand Who volunteered to pay the cost For everything we've lost Here in Shadowland Handcuffed In a cold, tile room 'neath a bare lightbulb There's nothing that you won't divulge Yes I've seen it in your kind 'Cause you're the enemy Our God is stronger than your's you see Did you pull the trigger on that IED Or were you just in the wrong place at the wrong time I've orders to obey So there'll be hell to pay In Shadowland The slippery slope where we've made our stand Where the blame flows down the chain of command And when that line is crossed They rewrite all the laws Here in Shadowland When you're dancing with a devil of your own design You sink down to his level every time When the Judgement comes God will sort the chosen ones By the dark of dawn and the midnight sun Will pierce the fog of war So they dodge the blame The low men in the temple claim That they do all this in Jesus' name To make us safer and more secure So don't get in our way Or there'll be hell to pay In Shadowland There is no evidence of God's hand In the darkness on the desert sand The high ground has been lost At far too high a cost Here in Shadowland