Mars

I've heard it said before
Don't win the battle and lose the war
Chasing after the settling of a score
Will only leave you lying dead on the floor
In my chest lies a purple heart
Bruised and battered from being torn apart
On my way across the galaxies and stars
As I tried to find an audience with Mars
And get the god of war on my side
But my troubles multiplied when he's saying

"Little girl, little girl
You're so far from your world
And all this time you've spent
Labouring for revenge
Won't amount to anything
You're a peasant and he's the king
But if you really wanna lay him low
My price is your immortal soul"
So I say let it go

So blind and full of rage
I signed my name and I promised to pay
Then all at once I could see laid out before me
King and country and what's left of my family
Then in my chest that old purple heart
Started pounding like it wanted to depart
And head back to the warmth of home and heart
To the love of the ones who held me close from the start
Then the god of war saw my eyes
And again to my surprise he's saying

"Little girl, little girl
You're so far from your world
And all this time you've spent
Labouring for revenge
Won't amount to anything
You're a peasant and he's the king
But if you really wanna lay him low
My price is your immortal soul"
So I say let it go

And he said "Young one, let me tell you true
You poison him, it'll poison you
Not right away but before it's through
Your heart will turn dark with an evil you never knew
Young one, let me tell you true
You poison him, it'll poison you
Not right away but before it's through
Your heart will turn dark with an evil you never knew"
And I said "Listen to me, Mars
I've travelled across the stars
I've come way too far to leave things as they are"
And he said "Little girl, little girl
As you wish, I unfurl a flag of death over his head
By end of day he will be dead
You will feel his pain in yours
And all your family and yours
You'll lose your life when he loses his
I hope you feel that it's worth it
I told you to let it go
You didn't let it go"

So now I'm lying here dead on the floor
I won the battle but I lost the war