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