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Mike Hampton's avatar

War isn't murder

Good men don't die

Children don't starve and all the women survive

War isn't murder

That's what they say

When you're fighting the Devil

Murder's okay

War isn't murder

They're called casualties

There ain't a veteran

With a good night's sleep

Let's talk about dead people

I mean a dead people

The dead don't feel honor

They don't feel that brave

They don't feel avenged

They're lucky if they got gravеs

Call your dead mother

Ask her whеn she died

It's a deathly silence on the other line

The dead don't talk

But their children don't forget

So in 20 short years

You can live to regret that

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War isn't murder

There's money at stake

Hell, even Kushner agrees

It's good real estate

War isn't murder

Ask Netanyahu

He's got a psalm for that

He's got a bomb for you

War isn't murder

It's an old desert faith

It's a nation state sanctioned righteous hate

Let's talk about dead people

I mean a dead people

War isn't murder

It's the vengeance of God

If you can't see the bodies

They don't bloat when they rot

And the flies don't swarm

And the children don't cry

If war isn't murder

Good men don't die

So in a short 20 years

Where you vacation the Strip

Try not and think about the dead

And have a nice trip

War isn't murder

Let's all give thanks

I saw it all in a movie

Give it up for Tom Hanks

War isn't murder

They don't ship out the poor

And the bullets they fire

Ain't part of the cure

War isn't murder

Land is a right

But the banks called dibs

It's something you can't fight

Let's talk about dead people

I mean a dead people

The dead don't feel honor

They don't feel that brave

They don't feel avenged

They're lucky if they got graves

Call your dead mother

Ask her when she died

It's a deathly silence on the other line

The dead don't talk

But their children don't forget

So in 20 short years

You can live to regret

That

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Mark Taylor's avatar

Thanks for posting the lyrics. I went looking for them but didn't find them. Hope the brave students at the college protest encampments hear it.

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Mike Hampton's avatar

Students at the University of Cape Town, the one with the most connections to Israel and our liberal party, and with shitload funding from the usual Western suspects, have been bravely protesting.

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

Thank you for sharing this. Who is this fantastic singer/songwriter?

I was thinking of another song the other day: "Genocide is painless...It brings on many changes. And war hawks can take the oil and land if they please..."

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Mark Taylor's avatar

I have never heard of him, though I must admit I am so withdrawn from pop culture I know nothing about the music or Hollywood scene. There is little in our culture that appeals to me now.

Haven't heard the lyric.

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

I checked his Youtube page. His name is Jesse Welles. I've never heard of him, either, but I'm with you on pop culture and names. I can tell you all about 70s singers and rock groups, but after that... My memory gets a bit spotty.

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Mark Taylor's avatar

Me too and now I'm forgetting the 70s!

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