Ub40 - Securing The Peace lyrics

[Chorus:] Securing the peace then preparing for war And the people don't know what they're fighting for Securing the peace then preparing for war And the people don't know what they're fighting for In peacetime sons bury their fathers In war fathers bury their sons The dead are all labeled as martyrs And the living inherit the bullet and the gun If religious crusade is your calling Ask your god if he'll stop the bombs falling On the heads of the poor that were silenced today They were wailing so loud you can't hear yourself pray A single d**h is tragic, a million a statistic To say the war is fought for peace sounds cynically sadistic Take your prayers and take your blaspheming To the graves where the mothers are screaming You can't convince me that you feel the loss The last real Christian you k**ed on the cross And while the world plays hide and seek To cover up the violence Innocence claims the right to speak And guilt the right to silence