War Isn't Murder (April 18, 2024)

War isn't murder, good men don't die

Children don't starve and all the women survive

War isn't murder, that's what they say

When you're fighting the devil, murder's okay

War isn't murder, they're called casualties

There ain't a veteran with a good night's sleep

Let's talk about dead people

I mean our dead people

The dead don't feel honor, they don't feel that brave

They don't feel avenged, they're lucky if they got grazed

Call your dead mother, ask her when she died

It's a deathly silence on the other line

The dead don't talk, but their children don't forget

So in twenty short years you could live to regret that

War isn't murder, there's money at stake

Hell, even Kushner agrees it's good for real estate

War isn't murder, ask Netanyahu

He's got a psalm for that, he's got a bomb for you

War isn't murder, it's an old desert faith

It's a nation-state sanctioned righteous hate

Let's talk about dead people

I mean our dead people

War isn't murder, it's the vengeance of God

If you can't see the bodies, they don't bloat when they rot

And the flies don't swarm and the children don't cry

If war isn't murder, good men don't die

So in a short twenty years when you vacation on the strip

Try not to think about the dead and have a nice trip

War isn't murder, let's all give thanks

I saw it all in a movie, give it up for Tom Hanks

War isn't murder, they don't ship out the poor

And the bullets they fire ain't part of the cure

War isn't murder, land is a right

But the banks call dibs, it's something you can't fight

Let's talk about dead people

I mean our dead people

The dead don't feel honor, they don't feel that brave

They don't feel avenged, they're lucky if they got grazed

Call your dead mother, ask her when she died

It's a deathly silence on the other line

The dead don't talk, but their children don't forget

So in twenty short years you could live to regret that