
Date of issue: 31.12.2002
Record label: A&M
Song language: English
This War |
You’ve got the mouth of a she wolf |
Inside the mask of an innocent lamb |
You say your heart is all compassion |
But there’s just a flat line on your cardiogram |
Yet you always made a profit baby |
If it was a famine or a feast |
Yes, I’m the soul of indiscretion |
I was cursed with x-ray vision |
I could see right through all the lies you told |
When you smiled for the television |
And you can see the coming battle |
You pray the drums will never cease |
And you may win this war that’s coming |
But would you tolerate the peace? |
Investing in munitions |
And those little cotton flags |
Invest in wooden caskets |
In guns and body bags, guns and body bags |
Your daddy was a businessman |
And it always made good sense |
You know the war can make you rich my friend |
In dollars, pounds and cents |
In the temple that was Mammon’s |
You were ordained the parish priest |
Yes you may win this coming battle |
But could you tolerate the peace? |
Invest in deadly weapons |
And those little cotton flags |
Invest in wooden caskets |
In guns and body bags |
You’re invested in oppression |
Investing in corruption |
Invest in every tyranny |
And the whole world’s destruction |
I imagine there’s a future |
When all the earthly wars are over |
You may find yourself just standing there |
On the white cliffs of Dover |
You may ask, what does it profit a man |
To gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul? |
Is that your body you see on the rocks below |
As the tide begins to roll? |
And you invested in this prison |
From which you never got released |
You may have won this war we’re fighting |
But would you tolerate the peace? |
There’s a war on our democracy |
A war on our dissent |
There’s a war inside religion |
And what Jesus might have meant |
There’s a war on mother nature |
A war upon the seas |
There’s a war upon the forests |
On the birds and the bees |
There’s a war on education |
A war on information |
A war between the sexes |
And every nation |
A war on our compassion |
A war on understanding |
A war on love and life itself |
It’s war that they’re demanding |
Make it easy on yourself |
And don’t do nothing |
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It's Probably Me ft. Eric Clapton | 1993 |
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La Belle Dame Sans Regrets | 1996 |
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