1982 Kathy Mar
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So they've stopped making speeches and they've started making war
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There are plastic pocket calculators tallying the score
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And a multitude of gentle hearts are wildly skipping beats
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And is this why we all went marching in the streets
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The uniforms go marching by in jets of screaming pain
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As they rise into the rockets holding poisons dressed as rain
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And a million brazen buglers can no longer sound retreat
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And is this why we all went marching in the streets
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Now they've found a way to kill the men and let the buildings stand
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And they've blindly put the switches into aging madmens' hands
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Ones who dream of war and glory and a thousand mighty feats
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And is this why we all went marching in the streets
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Now the children are demanding if we've sold our souls or worse
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As we tear their world to splinters for the profits of our purse
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As they turn their backs on us the question once again repeats
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Is this why we all went marching in the streets
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So you think no more of marching all the protesters are gone
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And you've paid the price once asked of you and now the debt is done
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Well believe it if you will but if you don't get off your seats
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They'll soon have us all out marching in the streets
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We are raising up our voices for the cause of peace again
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They're preparing us for war now but they will not tell us when
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We must stop them here and now before the final armies meet
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Or there'll be no one left for marching in the streets
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And is this why we all went marching in the streets?
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Marching In the Streets
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| Kathy Mar |
