WORLDS APART 


Ignorance and innocence go together 
Peace and harmony flowers and trees 
Your peace of mind only comes in pints 
There are other worlds apart from these 
A world where war and poverty exist 
As a reality back in the public factory 
So cliched and disorderly 
They wash down fears with crocodile beers 
False illusion and big man jeers: 
"Well i didn't know about afghanistan 
'cos i'm a homeloving working man 
and i'd know i'd resist if i had to fight 
I know i'd resist - exist - resist - with a fist" 
Violence, no! that is no answer two wrongs 
Don't make a right but a thousand wrongs 
Make the human race conditioned 
So they fight hence the reason hence the shouting 
From the start it seemed so real anti-war 
And bombs and fighting telling someone 
What we feel a world of strength and clarity 
The alternative reality 
But creating a new lifestyle could never come to much 
Everyone had the ideas 
But no-one had the guts then they dropped their goddamn bomb 
Just like we'd predicted just like we wrote the songs 
About just like the words we'd stand and shout 
We don't know half of anything real 
We don't even know how we should feel 
When questioned or cornered we back off and squeal 
So where is this solution? 
This evasive dream conclusion? 
Where's the end to this pollution? 
Or is peace just an illusion? 
After all we're only human 
("We're only human" is our excuse to say 
We're not in control over our actions 
Preferring to blame some "natural process" 
For our own self-indulgence in personal gain) 
You can point your finger and redirect the blame 
But just as you're blaming someone else 
They doing just the same so think before you drink 
Your life away think about what you may have to say react! 
- convincingly - to that with which you disagree 

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