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Ballad
For The Dead
I've
looked but can not see them
Where are they Judy?
I've searched all I can
Where are they Ann?
The boys you played with -
before they aged to be a man
Where are they Helen? Where
are they Suzy?
The boys who wore that uniform
A soldier for to be
Do you remember, do you
recall?
The Falklands, Korea, Vietnam
And all those other useless
wars
Where the ones we loved
Began knocking on heavens door
Do we remember the laughing
years?
Before we cried these lonely
tears
Or is it all so painful now?
That we don't want to anyhow
FORGET OUR DEAD
For they can not smile
But can we truly forget them?
Who said they'd be back in a
while
For our dead quietly lie
Sold out by nations
that watched them die
Sang songs and lamentations
Yet will not provide any
compensation
Our politicians are the
blindest fools
For as they sit and make the
rules
They can not see the human
tools
Who die in countless needless
wars
And all the big strong men
Behind their bankers putrid
flesh
Can you not see the suffering
Your greedy plans enmesh
How many war widows will it
take?
To make a country quake
With fear to rip at every
heart
For the lives of our young
being torn apart
What does it take to make them
see
That we're all there is,
there'll ever be
So throw away our lives, our
goals
For you've already sold our
souls
For the dead and the brave
Have no everlasting grave
And Valhalla is only a mortal
legend
But I ask the leaders and the
few
Do our names mean anything to
you?
You who let others fight -
Only to die in scores
As you build your weapons -
to stop more wars
Long after the fallen -
have fell no more
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