War is nothing but a business
that only profits hate and fear
and colects debt on a mothers tear
and cashes in on a fathers pride
and we will pay and suffer
for our own sins
when we allow missles to soar
bombs to drop
bullets to fly
and when we allow our children
to belive that war is a solution
a necessary evil
we teach them that violence
is a means to solve conflicts
where words and kindness
and compassion and reason
are just pretty clichés
when we let our children
march out to the perpetual
beat of the never ending
wars of mans greed
when we turn our backs
on the business of war
we may as well be the ones launching the missles
and dropping the bombs
and pulling the trigger
on the guns
that our aimed
at our childrens head