Like splinters the buildings rise
Like spikes on the floor of a cave
Fly over our city in the dark of night
They sparkle like lit-up tombstones, crowded graves.
We know it’s not so
We know it’s not so
Our city breathes
Our city lives
We know it’s not so.
Year after year our bombers fly
Like bats from the mouth of a cave
Streaming forth around the world
They've got a way of life to save.
We know it’s so
We know it’s so
We let them go
If it's to our advantage
We tell them to go.
Down through history the cavemen march
For power, greed, religion, national pride;
Like locusts they sweep across the earth
Their god is money - and he's is on their side.
We know it’s so
It’s forever been so
Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler and ....
It’s forever been so
Through countless years the cavemen claim
A tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye
Toothless and blind, denying blame
They seek revenge until the day they die.
We know it’s so
We know it’s so
It’s in our name
It means YES
If we don’t say NO ---
We hold our breath as the tables turn
As the cavemen posture, as we learn to learn
As we cast about for someone to blame
And ponder that terrorists and patriots might behave the same.
Is it so?
Is it so?
Cry for the dead of Viet Nam
For the starving children in Iraq
Cry for the victims of Uncle Sam
In all the countries that WE’VE attacked.
And cry for the thousands
Who died among the rubble in New York.
We sow
We sow and we sow ---
You reap what you sow.
Like spikes on the floor of a cave
Fly over our city in the dark of night
They sparkle like lit-up tombstones, crowded graves.
We know it’s not so
We know it’s not so
Our city breathes
Our city lives
We know it’s not so.
Year after year our bombers fly
Like bats from the mouth of a cave
Streaming forth around the world
They've got a way of life to save.
We know it’s so
We know it’s so
We let them go
If it's to our advantage
We tell them to go.
Down through history the cavemen march
For power, greed, religion, national pride;
Like locusts they sweep across the earth
Their god is money - and he's is on their side.
We know it’s so
It’s forever been so
Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler and ....
It’s forever been so
Through countless years the cavemen claim
A tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye
Toothless and blind, denying blame
They seek revenge until the day they die.
We know it’s so
We know it’s so
It’s in our name
It means YES
If we don’t say NO ---
We hold our breath as the tables turn
As the cavemen posture, as we learn to learn
As we cast about for someone to blame
And ponder that terrorists and patriots might behave the same.
Is it so?
Is it so?
Cry for the dead of Viet Nam
For the starving children in Iraq
Cry for the victims of Uncle Sam
In all the countries that WE’VE attacked.
And cry for the thousands
Who died among the rubble in New York.
We sow
We sow and we sow ---
You reap what you sow.
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