No More War - Mike Love

Lately these days I get so paranoid

With so many stories of families broken

Fathers being deployed

All for this war that no one really wants

Too many doctors

Too many headstones

Too many dying to count

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 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 sheep

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 behold in this world

Why would you want to feed the destruction?

With all of wonders to witness in this world

Why would you want to see Armageddon?

With all of the things you could be in this world

Why would you go and be a soldier man?

Oh, oh, oh, oh I

Oh I, I think I know why

Cause when you were 3 years old

They put a toy gun in your hand, and

They showed you shows of G.I.

Joes how could you overstand

The difference between fiction and reality?

Oh if your parents knew how it impacted you they would’ve burned the TVs

But they were too busy (too busy)

Working for the man

And they were too busy (too busy)

Just fitting into the plan

So when you were 6 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 (symbolism)

That keeps you coming back

Esoteric symbolism (symbolism)

That they subconscious tap

Oh yes the symbolism (symbolism)

Keep you slipping through the cracks

It’s the symbolism (symbolism)

Got your mind under attack

But youth put on your thinking cap

Don’t get caught in their trap

No

With all of the creativity in this world

Why would you create nuclear weapons?

With all of 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

Why would you go and be a soldier man?

Oh I

Oh I’m starting to see why

Cause when you were 13 years old

You joined the ROTC

Your high school version of your immersion in the military

They got you dreaming of that M16 in your hands

Heroically killing enemies for democracy in a foreign land

Why it’s the mind control (mind control)

That keeps you killing blindly

Government mind control (mind control)

Been going on for centuries

So when you were 18 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 of the rewards and benefits Uncle Sam will bring

Just sign on the dotted line

The officer says with a grin

Sign your name on the dotted line

Just there and 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, yeah

Oh Lord

Give me one good reason

Give me one good outcome

From all of this killing

It don’t make no sense

Oh so many are dying

Orphaned babies crying

In the name of freedom

What a false pretense

Oh with all the money

All the power

All the souls that you devour

Mr. Politician man

It could never equal the power of Jah love that I hold in the fingers of my

pure, clean hands

So Mr. Soldier man

I’m begging you 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 just don’t give a shit

No

Oh Lord there’s got to be a better way

To communicate

I don’t believe that killing man

Makes us more safe

Lord I know the opposite is true

Oh how 'bout you?

Do you buy into the news?

Have they got you so confused?

But 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 'em we don’t need no more of these

Broken dreams

And fantasies

Are falling down the well

Or Daddy’s gone

And left his family

A living hell

So many die

Lifeless they lie

In graves with names unknown

Oh Mommy cries

Waits for her son

Who is never coming home

Oh Lord 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 Lord no we don’t need

No, no we don’t need

Oh no we don’t need

No more war

Not in Iraq

Not in Afghanistan

Not in Libya

Not in Israel

Palestine no

We don’t wanna see more

Brothers coming home in body bags

Wrapped up in American flags

Bloody in American flags

We don’t wanna see no more villages burned

We don’t wanna see no more innocent victims dying

No more orphaned babies crying

We don’t want no more

No more war, yeah

Oh no, no we don’t need

Oh no, no we don’t need

Oh no we don’t need

No more war