Here Comes the War - New Model Army

Today, as you listen to this song, another 394,000 children

Were born into this world … they break like waves of Hunger and desire upon these eroded shores … carrying

The curses of history and a history yet unwritten … the oil

Burns in thick black columns the buzz saws echo through

The forest floor … they shout give us our fair share,

Give us justice …

… here comes the war

On a grey morning to the south of here two young men in Makeshift uniforms peer into the misty light … and

Figures dart behind the trees as a snap of rifle rounds

Echoes out across the fields … well they hardly know their

Sacred mother tongue … but they know their duty to defend

The flag hanging limp and bloody above the village church …

While a thousand miles away in a warehouse complex down by The river … young money men play paintball games …

… here comes the war

Put out the lights on the age of reason …

Blow out the candle and tell us another of these great stories …

The ones about serial killers … let dreams flow into savage

Times … do you hear the sirens scream across the city.

We’ve had three hot nights in succession … the hot season is Here again … dear lord lead us back into the valley of the

Shadow of death …

… here comes the war

Did you think we were born in peaceful times?

Faster, faster … like a whirling dervish spinning round …

Faster, faster … till the centre cannot hold … faster, faster …

You screamed give us liberty or give us death

Now you’ve got both, what do you want next?

…

… here comes the war

Put out the lights on the age of reason.