No!
I was musing just the other day
I was musing just the other day
And I said to myself I’d rather not see
The whole world stretched out dead
The blue and the green
Chasm between war and the peace
Another tale of pride and vanity
With the parades and processions a
and the pageantry and the fools gold
Whole world’s bought and sold
Here’s an apocalyptic ticket
to the picture show
Where the tears of the poets and puppets
are hollow
Millions of histories
Millions of mysteries
And the borders between
You and me drawn by
Geopolitical dynasties
Suspicions of the war
Premonitions of war
I’m bored of all the isms
and the schisms and the
Faux altruisms, that leave
Peace knocking on the door
While the minefields
And the vacuum bombs
Explode and the children’s lungs
Blow
Remember the walrus and
Miss Ono
So read between the lines
Read between the times
Like all times
Diffuse the bombs the lies
Declare the wars obsolete
And tell everybody
that you meet in the street
That a sonic dove
Said to say it or pray it
No miracle don’t delay it
But if you’ve got to just talk it
Then you can skip hop or walk it
To the two letters that we need the most
They go N… O…
Call for you
Ring ring
To war I say
No more I say
No!
No!
No!
No!
No.
No!
Not today
No!
Take it all alway
No!
War
No!
More
No!
For history
No!
For you and me
No!
Not my world
And No!
Not my girl
No!
For The free
No!
For humanity
Got the king of lizards
in the Père-Lachaise
Celestial sphinx of the
Strawberry fields was shot dead
And Rimbeaud’s American
skip the beat g-g-generation
Rockstar prodigy
Got two of those three
Looking right down on me
Rory McBride