Here Comes the War

Today, as you listen to this song, another 394,000 children
Were born into this world … they break like waves of Hunger and desire upon these eroded shores … carrying
The curses of history and a history yet unwritten … the oil
Burns in thick black columns the buzz saws echo through
The forest floor … they shout give us our fair share,
Give us justice …
… here comes the war
On a grey morning to the south of here two young men in Makeshift uniforms peer into the misty light … and
Figures dart behind the trees as a snap of rifle rounds
Echoes out across the fields … well they hardly know their
Sacred mother tongue … but they know their duty to defend
The flag hanging limp and bloody above the village church …
While a thousand miles away in a warehouse complex down by The river … young money men play paintball games …
… here comes the war
Put out the lights on the age of reason …
Blow out the candle and tell us another of these great stories …
The ones about serial killers … let dreams flow into savage
Times … do you hear the sirens scream across the city.
We’ve had three hot nights in succession … the hot season is Here again … dear lord lead us back into the valley of the
Shadow of death …
… here comes the war
Did you think we were born in peaceful times?
Faster, faster … like a whirling dervish spinning round …
Faster, faster … till the centre cannot hold … faster, faster …
You screamed give us liberty or give us death
Now you’ve got both, what do you want next? …
… here comes the war
Put out the lights on the age of reason.