Redneckties

The sunrise lights the sky as it breaks over the horizon

Blue suit and red tie getting ready for the day's decisions

In a luxury car on the interstate

Calm and composed speaking dead words to deaf ears that won't listen

He casts a vote and sends off guns, bombs, bullets and your children

To fight a foreign war to meet an unknown fate

Then outside on the steps at a news conference

He opens up his mouth and purges

"This is a unique time in our own history"

And it takes all of his strength to not laugh

As he talks of freedom, sacrifice, responsibility

Asks for God's blessing of his war

Lights up a cigar and he drives home

The bombs blast light the sky as they burst over the heads of thousands

The innocent cry as their homes are crushed with family in them

They are collateral they aren't significant

Now overseas the soldiers work hard to carry out all their orders

Given to them by the men in red ties still within their borders

Their legs are paralyzed their mouths are still working

Back behind a desk in his office

He looks over a speech he must give

"This is a unique time in our own history"

And it takes all of his strength to not laugh

As he talks of freedom, sacrifice, responsibility

Then he asks for God's blessing of his war

Lights up a cigar and he drives home

…To his family

Home to a warm bed

Home to the affluence for which he voted

Himself is all he thinks of the days

Then a bomb drops upon a poor farmer's son

Who needed money for an education

And he screams,

"This is the ending of my life's brief history"

It takes all of his strength in that last breath to cry out

"I died for glory, honor, my beloved country"

And then the lids cover the light inside his eyes

Just like the flag over the coffin where he lies

Oh yeah, that hand over the camera when he arrives

How his family's pain will be politicized

By all those heartless men wearing their redneckties