Name: Heaven's Army
Duration: P00H05M27S
Description: This would be the first part of side 2 if Baklawa Doom was pressed onto a record. "Heaven's Army" is a rather bitter look at Angelic warfare, based on the webcomic "Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth". It also takes a lot of inspiration from 'S.F. Sorrow' by the Pretty Things, to the point at which I had to rewrite parts of it because I felt they were much too similar.

Heaven's Army

from Baklawa Doom by DOUG the Eagle

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This would be the first part of side 2 if Baklawa Doom was pressed onto a record. "Heaven's Army" is a rather bitter look at Angelic warfare, based on the webcomic "Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth". It also takes a lot of inspiration from 'S.F. Sorrow' by the Pretty Things, to the point at which I had to rewrite parts of it because I felt they were much too similar.

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I found me in another world when my mortal life was done
I've earned the right to live up here and I am not the only one
But Heaven's not just clouds and singing, and so I joined the peacetime guard
Sent off to fight some vampire cult, should training be this hard?
“Oh and by the way,” they said, “Once an angel dies, he's dead.”

We found us on a forest world where the vampire threat existed
If I knew it would be like this, I'd never have enlisted
Heaven's Army falls apart, raw recruits are slaughtered by the dozen
See Hell's minions, find a place to hide away
(I saw so many comrades die – enough to make an angel cry)

Again I have to ask if I've been fooled, or is this really Heaven...?
Again I have to ask if I've been fooled, and it was all a scam

A band of angels wishing they had guns instead of sword and spear
If I get out of this alive I'm gonna choose a new career
And Heaven's Army falls apart, raw recruits are picked off by the dozen
See Hell's minions, find a place to hide away

Again I have to ask if I've been fooled, or is this really Heaven...?
Again I have to ask if I've been fooled, and it was all a scam...

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from Baklawa Doom, released March 14, 2012

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