I Can't Kill No More
lyrics:
When I was born I had no idea
Of who I was or what I should fear
But growing older it became quite clear
Of the values I should hold dear
I was a boy with my toy gun
Killing my friends who played the Indians.
Or sometimes soldiers from the rising sun,
Oh did I have fun.
TV and movies were a thrill to see
Good guys and bad guys from A to Z
Some losers hanging from an old oak tree
All the winners looking just like me
As I grew older my ideas did change
The world revealed in a much broader range
The shame and horror behind real war
Now I can't kill no more
Too much money in the tools of war
It buys them friends who will start some more
They need excuses to keep us poor
Their souls are rotten right down to the core
I remember the very day
I realized that people go away
A conversation overheard while young
About a life that did not go on
It hit me hard to know this all will end
No more Spring times just around the bend
No more play times with my best friend
Now I can't kill no more
Too much money in the tools of war
It buys them friends who will start some more
They need excuses to keep us poor
Their souls are rotten right down to the core
Shameless people in the game of greed
Telling stories just to fill our needs
Designed to get us all down on our knees
And not to care about how much we bleed
The pain and sorrow that has been sown
They claim is something they could not have known
You don't fool me I know what I've been shown
Now I can't kill no more