A Different Kind of War

There was a long haired guy who drew a crowd outside

He got them all angry over national pride

He was talking of the war that's on our shore

And how we've never had to fight so hard beforer

It's a war to fight and a war to win he said

But how do we strike and where to begin?

We want to kill those guilty of the crimes they've made

But they don't live in one city; there's no fortress to invade

This war is psychological and it starts right here

So in my defiance, I will not live in fear

Because fear is their weapon so I won't give in to that

They know that fear turns to rage, and thats just their trap

The way they win is to make us strike back

They want us to launch a dreadful counterattack

The more people that die at the hand of our nation

The more hate it will breed in the next generation

In this kind of war, they're not after our land

They want their children's blood on our vengeful hands

They want to make us act like an angry mob

So we look like a bully that hates their god

Their plan is to hurt us with our own brute force

Like a herd stampeding down a deadly course

If they can get us running with a rage like this

They can lead the free world off the edge of a cliff

And the cliff is to fall for the trap they've sprung

To make us play the role of the vengeful one

They want us to chase them and hunt them down

To kill their people and burn their towns

The few guilty people are happy to die

If they can make us kill a few thousand more besides

Becuase the death of the innocents just fuels the flame

Until the next war starts and its all the same

And the future unfolds for a hundred years

As the terror grows and it breeds more fear

So who will decide the future of our nation?

Will we follow along with their invitation?

The invitation is to trust our hate

To let revenge define our fate

To never see that it's a different war

And we can't fight the same way we fought before

We're not hunted by a tiger, or a lion or a shark, its more

Like FIRE that's the danger and the enemy's a spark

But the trickiest spin that the devil could twist

Was convincing the world that he didn't exist

If you don't believe in evil, then they're just dangerous men

And you'll fight fire with fire, and you'll be just like them

An eye for an eye, time after time

Eye after eye until the whole world is blind

If our enemy is evil, like a virus of the mind

And its moving through the body of all humankind

Then the evil brilliance of this virus which is hate

Is that our natural reaction makes it replicate

We want to shoot at a target thats easy to find

But the enemy is in us - all humankind

We want to kill the invader like we could in the past

But you can't kill a virus with a shotgun blast

This is not a nation that we're up against

If it's good against evil what's our best defense?

The man on the street was drawing a crowd

Some people got angry and voices got loud

The crowd answered back to the sidewalk guy

That we must have revenge for the people that died

But the man kept talking about love and light

As if that were any way to fight the fight

And a scuffle started and they hauled him in

He was convicted of crimes and convicted of sins

And for national safety and religious pride

That sidewalk preacher was crucified