You've got the mouth of a she wolf
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Inside the mask of an innocent lamb
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You say your heart is all compassion
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But there's just a flat line on your cardiogram
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Yet you always made a profit baby
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If it was a famine or a feast
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Yes, I'm the soul of indiscretion,
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I was cursed with x-ray vision,
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I could see right through all the lies you told,
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When you smiled for the television
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And you can see the coming battle
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You pray the drums will never cease
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And you may win this war that's coming
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But would you tolerate the peace?
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Investing in munitions
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And those little cotton flags
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Invest in wooden caskets
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In guns and body bags, guns and body bags
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Your daddy was a businessman
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And it always made good sense
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You know the war can make you rich my friend
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In dollars, pounds and cents
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In the temple that was Mammon's
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You were ordained the parish priest
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Yes you may win this coming battle
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But could you tolerate the peace?
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Invest in deadly weapons
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And those little cotton flags
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Invest in wooden caskets
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In guns and body bags
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You're invested in oppression
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Investing in corruption
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Invest in every tyranny
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And the whole world's destruction
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I imagine there's a future
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When all the earthly wars are over
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You may find yourself just standing there
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On the white cliffs of Dover
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You may ask, what does it profit a man
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To gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?
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Is that your body you see on the rocks below
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As the tide begins to roll?
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And you invested in this prison
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From which you never got released
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You may have won this war we're fighting
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But would you tolerate the peace?
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There's a war on our democracy
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A war on our dissent
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There's a war inside religion
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And what Jesus might have meant
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There's a war on mother nature
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A war upon the seas
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There's a war upon the forests
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On the birds and the bees
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There's a war on education
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A war on information
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A war between the sexes
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And every nation
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A war on our compassion
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A war on understanding
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A war on love and life itself
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It's war that they're demanding
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Make it easy on yourself
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And don't do nothing
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This War
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| Sting & Police |
