Yet another day of people coming up to me and saying we should go to war
But this makes me wonder if peace and human rights are what we’re fighting for
Because everyday we’re seeing people dying in the night
Another helpless victim unknowing of the fight
But we’re destroying the heathens at an even faster pace
I guess it’s worth destruction of our entire race
And I guess that it’s the cost of war and there will be many more.
I ask you what’s the price of life and is it paid for in the strife?
I ask you what’s the cost of war, just another open sore
On the face of human kind just trying to survive
Don’t listen to what they say or teach the children anyway they’re only writing songs
But to make sure that our kids never listen we will tell them that it’s wrong
So take up your guns, yes take up your arms
We must destroy those who stray from our moral norms
But it’s true, as they say, that ignorance is bliss
And if they started learning then we can’t go on like this.
Then they will know the cost of war and those who came before
And there will be no price to life, no purpose for our strife
We will become the cost of war and the burdens that we bore
Cannot replace what was inside, lost with their lives.
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