Pawns & the Kings

A white handkerchief tied to the door of the car

A line of vodka shots sat on the edge of the bar

And somebody's pouring them all down the sink

In the hope it might cause them to stop and to think

A sign in the window says children on board

And they pray as they drive that it won't be ignored

In that convoy of cars with the same flag unfurled

Signaling peace while behind their homes burn

Now the sky's full of lead and the mercury's rising

A white flag stained red in another no man's land

Stray dogs picking their way through the dead in the streets

A hundred missiles a day means tonight there's a feast

Where they once trod the boards they now cower in the dark

As they wait for that horseman to tear it apart

And they won't even leave them alone in their graves

Man woman or child there's nobody safe

From those monogrammed tanks as they roll into town

As they wait for that horseman to tear it all down

Now the sky's full of lead and the mercury's rising

A white flag stained red in another no man's land

How are we back here again

Generals look on at innocents dying in vain

And it's always the same

The rich wage their war games while somehow escaping the blame

Why is it always this way

If life was just then the pawns and the kings would trade fates

But it never was and we cannot touch them

This whole world is running on greed and corruption

We'll never find peace while this thirst for destruction remains

Now the sky's full of lead and the mercury's rising

A white flag stained red in another no man's land

The sky's full of lead and the mercury's rising

A white flag stained red in another no man's land