New World dissorder

Once upon a time long ago, the world was all at war.
I learned about it at school, I hope we can learn from our past.
Like our elders had learned from theirs.!!!!!!!
And with all our troops in Baghdad, I don’t feel so safe
When there’s no one here to save us, as the shit hits.

At this time of mourning, when we honour our dead.
We forget about the living, and the bits they leave behind
Yes I believe it truly, we were once the best,
No a sad old, passed it has bin, looking back.

Last week I watched the news, about a man who predicted death.
Now he rests in a wooden coffin,
Wishing that we’d listened .
And not turned the other cheek,
But ignorance is blinding, and arrogance is bliss.
But sitting in your office, really takes the piss.

Smarmy fucking mind games and phoney hand shake lies.
Telling us we’re winning, the fight for hearts and minds
You can’t say this shit’s sirloin, the tin tells me it’s spam
But it’s history that will judge us, this is our Vietnam,
And when the fighting’s over, the war has just begun.

©Saturday, 12 December 2009 Alex Kyriacou