Keep Your Sons and Daughters

Long ago you and I we knew that one day

We would change the world

Simply living like the changes we have seen

In our dreams

 

Now it’s been near forty years

And we are still at war

Neither Mom nor Pop nor Apple Pie

Can remember what it’s for

And though you feel the end is near

Don’t go and buy that farm

You can’t keep your sons and daughters where

They’re always safe from harm

Where they’re always safe from harm

 

Now it’s been 2000 years

And we are still at war

Does it really take three wise guys

To tell us killing’s wrong?

Yet it’s onward Christian Capitalist

Take all the Holy Lands

You send your sons and daughters where

Their blood will meet the sands

Where their blood will meet the sands

 

Now it’s been 10,000 years

Will it never end?

That Rock of Ages cleft for me

Black holes that will not mend

Neither Mom nor Pop nor Apple Pie

Still has regards to send

There are no more sons and daughters where

Our love can make amends

Where our love can make amends

 

Our love can make amends

Our love can make amends

Simply living like the changes we have seen

In our dreams

Our love can make amends

 

 

Thomas Hubbard  (1/25/2010)

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