Mike Love - No More War lyrics

Lately these days I get so paranoid With so many stories of families broken Fathers being deployed All for this war that no one really wants Too many doctors Too many headstones Too many dying to count If we could today we'd bring them all back home But they'll never listen These politicians Their hearts have turned to stone And if we had a voice then by God we be heard But we're so divided And we're undecided So we never say a word And we all go to sleep Like good little sheep Never make a peep So I'm taking a stand And I'm making demands And I'll stand even if I have to stand alone And say Bring The Troops Back Home With all of the beauty to behold in this world Why would you want to feed the destruction? With all of wonders to witness in this world Why would you want to see Armageddon? With all of the things you could be in this world Why would you go and be a soldier man? Oh, oh, oh, oh I Oh I, I think I know why Cause when you were 3 years old They put a toy gun in your hand, and They showed you shows of G.I. Joes how could you overstand The difference between fiction and reality? Oh if your parents knew how it impacted you they would've burned the TVs But they were too busy (too busy) Working for the man And they were too busy (too busy) Just fitting into the plan So when you were 6 years old They put you in the Boy Scouts So harmless it seemed to be marching waving the flag about But they already got you wearing that uniform on your back Using weapons, earning medals, gaining rank in your pack Yeah it's the symbolism (symbolism) That keeps you coming back Esoteric symbolism (symbolism) That they subconscious tap Oh yes the symbolism (symbolism) Keep you slipping through the cracks It's the symbolism (symbolism) Got your mind under attack But youth put on your thinking cap Don't get caught in their trap No With all of the creativity in this world Why would you create nuclear weapons? With all of wonders to witness in this world Why would you want to see Armageddon? With all of the billion things to be in this world, oh why Why would you go and be a soldier man? Oh I Oh I'm starting to see why Cause when you were 13 years old You joined the ROTC Your high school version of your immersion in the military They got you dreaming of that M16 in your hands Heroically k**ing enemies for democracy in a foreign land Why it's the mind control (mind control) That keeps you k**ing blindly Government mind control (mind control) Been going on for centuries So when you were 18 years old The recruiters came to your school With fancy dress and propaganda trying to make you their fool Telling you you're never gonna amount to anything But look at all of the rewards and benefits Uncle Sam will bring Just sign on the dotted line The officer says with a grin Sign your name on the dotted line Just there and we'll take you in Just pick up the pen and sign We'll take care of everything Sign your name on the dotted line And your bright future can begin But can you hear the bugle play As you sign your life away, yeah Oh Lord Give me one good reason Give me one good outcome From all of this k**ing It don't make no sense Oh so many are dying Orphaned babies crying In the name of freedom What a false pretense Oh with all the money All the power All the souls that you devour Mr. Politician man It could never equal the power of Jah love that I hold in the fingers of my pure, clean hands So Mr. Soldier man I'm begging you come back home Oh Military man Leave them war machines alone Cause them politicians sit in their mansion Reaping all the benefits While you lay dying in the trenches And they just don't give a sh** No Oh Lord there's got to be a better way To communicate I don't believe that k**ing man Makes us more safe Lord I know the opposite is true Oh how 'bout you? Do you buy into the news? Have they got you so confused? But when I feel the pressure in the air I get so scared Will we live to see another day? Another month, another year? How can I protect my family From these crazy Leaders addicted to war Tell 'em we don't need no more of these Broken dreams And fantasies Are falling down the well Or Daddy's gone And left his family A living hell So many die Lifeless they lie In graves with names unknown Oh Mommy cries Waits for her son Who is never coming home Oh Lord so we don't need Oh no, no we don't need Oh no we don't need No more war Oh no our wounds won't mend By hurting them So what are we fighting for? Oh Lord no we don't need No, no we don't need Oh no we don't need No more war Not in Iraq Not in Afghanistan Not in Libya Not in Israel Palestine no We don't wanna see more Brothers coming home in body bags Wrapped up in American flags Bloody in American flags We don't wanna see no more villages burned We don't wanna see no more innocent victims dying No more orphaned babies crying We don't want no more No more war, yeah Oh no, no we don't need Oh no, no we don't need Oh no we don't need No more war