Why Write A Letter That You'll Never Send

and they'll be handy in the future

And who cares for their survival

and who cares about the yanks

who cares if they get overrun

by Chinese nukes and tanks

Who cares about the holocaust

man we didn't learn nothing there

and all it's memory does is

keep the History Channel on air

Who cares about the Vatican

man everybody knows

and who's surprised they went and

chose a nazi for a pope?

Who cares about fakes like anarchists

man they never went to dance

let's mambo Mogadishu

give anarchy a chance

I'm saying life is cruel, you know it's true

but all sides still try and recruit you

for shangri-las as practical

as doing the karma sutra

Why write a letter that you'll never send away

Why won't you stay with me, wait and see

all you need know

nobody's perfect and their needs are always stark

stay with me, wait you'll see

all you need to know

everybody skirts the fact their needs are always stark

And who cares if the starving millions

know it's christmas or your birthday

or what movie stars in Africa

or the guy from U2 says

Or all the statesmen never telling

lies as truth or gospel

who cares what true or false

the truth's the world won't go to hospital

But who needs to live forever

who needs the extra miles

we won't need bees or seed banks

in the Arctic for a while

We play the game to start again

not to better life for all

it's the appropriate opiate

when a better way's impossible

Some honesty now wouldn't go astray

if not, then what's the use?

we're animals, we can't help doing

what all animals do

So goodbye my friend, i'm hitting send

forgive me talking straight

I'm only trying to make the world

a much less painful place

And why write a letter that you'll never send away?"