No More War

No more war

Lately these days

I get so paranoid

There's so many stories of families broken

Fathers being deployed

All for this war that no one really wants

Too many dog tags

Too many headstones

Too many dying to count

And if we could today we'd bring them all back home

But they'll never listen these politicians

Their hearts have turned to stone

And if we had a voice then by God we'd be heard

But we're so divided

And we're undecided

So we never say a word

And we all go to sleep

Like good little sheet

Never make a peep

So I'm taking a stand

And I'm making demands

And I'll stand even if

I have to stand alone

And say bring the troops back home

With all of the beauty to behould in this world

Why would you want to feed the destruction

With all of the wonders to witness in this world

Why would you want to see armageddon

With all of the things that you could be in this world

Why would you go and be a soldier man

Oh I, oh I

I think I know why

'Cause when you were three years old

They put a toy gun in your hand

And they showed you shows of g. I. Joe's

How could you overstand

The difference between fiction and reality

Oh, if your parents knew how it impacted you

They would have burned the tv

But they were too busy

Working for the man

Yeah, they were too busy

Just fitting into the plans

So when you were six years old

They put you in the boy scouts

So harmless, it seemed to be marching

Waving the flag about

But they already got you wearing

That uniform on your back

Using weapons, earning medals

Gaining rank in your pack

Yeah, it's the symbolism

That keeps you coming back

Exoteric symbolism

Into your subconscious they tap

Why it's the symbolism

Keep you slipping through the cracks

Yeah, it's the symbolism

Got your mind under attack

But youth put on your thinking cap

Don't get caught up in their trap, no

With all of the creativity in this world

Why would you create nuclear weapons

With all of the wonders to witness in this world

Why would you want to see armageddon

With all of the billion things to be in this world

Oh, why would you go and be a soldier man

Oh, I, oh, I'm starting to see why

'Cause when you were thirteen years old

You joined the rotc

The high school version of your immersion in the military

They got you dreaming of that m16 in your hand

Heroically killing enemies for democracy in a foreign land

Why it's the mind control

That keeps you killing blindly

Government mind control

Been going on for centuries

So when you were eighteen years old

The recruiters came to your school

With fancy dress and propaganda

Trying to make you their fool

Telling you you're never gonna amount to anything

But look at all the rewards and benefits

Uncle sam can bring

Just sign on the dotted line

The officer says with a grin

Sign your name on the dotted line

Trust in us, we'll take you in

Just pick up the pen and sign

We'll take care of everything

Sign your name on the dotted line

And your bright future can begin

But can you hear the bugle play

As you sign your life away

Give me one good reason

Give me one good outcome

From all of this killing

It don't make no sense

So many are dying

Orphaned babies crying

In the name of freedom

What a false pretense

But all the money

All the power

All the souls that you devour

Mister politician man

Could never equal

To the power of jah love

That I hold in the fingers

Of my pure clean hands

So mister soldier man

I'm begging you to come back home

Oh, military man

Leave them war machines alone

'Cause them politicians sit in their mansion

Reaping all the benefits

While you lay dying in the trenches

And they don't give a shit, no

Oh, lord there's got to be

A better way to communicate

I don't believe that killing men

Makes us more safe

Lord, I know the opposite is true

How 'bout you

Do you buy into the news

Have they got you so confused

When I feel the pressure in the air

I get so scared

Will we live to see another day

Another month, another year

How can I protect my family

From these crazy leaders addicted to war

Tell them we don't need no more of these

Broken dreams and fantasies

All fallen down the well

Oh, daddy's gone

And left his family

A living hell

So many dies

Lifeless they lie

In graves with names unknown

Oh, mommy cries

Waits for her son

Who ain't never coming home

Oh, no, so we don't need

Oh, no, no, we don't need

Oh, no, we don't need no more war

Oh, no, our wounds won't mend

By hurting them

So what are we fighting for

Oh, no, no, we don't need

Oh, no, no, we don't need

Oh, no, we don't need no more war

Not in iraq!

Not in afghanistan, no!

Not in Lybia!

Not in Israel!

Palestine, no!

We don't wanna see

No, no more of our brothers

Coming home in body bags

Wrapped up in american flags

Blood in American flags

We don't wanna see, no more

Villages burned to the ground

We don't wanna see, no more

Innocent victims dying

No more orphaned babies crying

We don't want no more, no more

No more war!

Oh, no, no, we don't need

Oh, no, no, we don't need

Oh, no, we don't need no more war