Consequences

When a nation’s been ravaged by war

In the end they’ll ask, “What was it for”

We go fight and we toil

Pour our blood in the soil

Until someone says, “Please God, no more”

Tho it’s obvious some countries love it

Only death and destruction comes of it

Soldiers fight and they die

After, families will cry

It’s why God says it’s wicked to covet

And it’s often for something unsound

It’s the subject we’re dancing around

Despite lies we create

We’re aware of the bait

It’s that fishhook down deep in the ground

So we lobbied to drill but we couldn’t

Because Congress decided we shouldn’t

Now old men wearing suits

Order children in boots

To fight wars that the most of them wouldn’t

Here’s a notion we might want to savor

What if now we tried loving our neighbor

Why not ask what it’s worth

To be peaceful on earth

It would do ourselves one giant favor