What Is War For

Nobody wants to die

That's for sure

So can you tell me

What war is for?

Mr. President

I know you're a clever man

Please, can you tell me

In words I'll understand?

No mother on Earth wants to lose her own child

Out on some cold battlefield

So why must soldiers go marching in rank and file

And terrorize and murder?

I'm asking you once more

Tell me what war is for

Mr. President

I know I'm only nine

But I'm frightened in a forest

Of missiles, tanks, and mines

You tell me to run for shelter

Whenever the sirens blow

While my life is put in danger

For reasons I don't know

And the lives of all the others

Do you hear the babies cry

While firebombs and rockets

Rain down from the sky?

They stand there face to face

And could be friends instead

But before they give each other a chance

They shoot each other dead

Come on, how dumb is that?

Tell me what war is for

And did you ask all the billions

Of people all around the globe

If war was ever gonna help them

To ease their heavy load?

Or did you just ask your cronies

How much money they all could make

To adorn their wives with jewellery

While sowing the seeds of hate?

Or is it still about religion

And which god rules above?

If there is or there isn't a heaven?

I thought that the message was love

Or are there any other reasons

For causing so much pain?

Well, I guess that I'm just too young

And I'll understand in a while

I guess I'm still too young

'Cause I'm just a child