war
power; main theme (stream)
leadership, fascism,
that's usually what they mean
(dream/cream)
power the boss guys have
never seem to wield a gun,
lead/read
but not recede (the creed)
fight/flight; to the death boys,
battle, tussle, muscle, in on the enemy
(battle, tussle, muscle)
really:
- revile, censure, condemn, detest
abominate, loathe, repulse, abhor
folk who have different beliefs,
politics, law
such hating, disliking,
malicious antagonising
- "lead on to war"
CHORUS: women hang around;
or linger or stop or wait
big bombing, big bombing
- armoured troops coming
to invade our habitat;
if it comes to that
bloodshed
bloodletting
infinitesimal children being dead
dieing by a piece of lead
Babe-faced lads follow
whilst others rule supreme
obedient human-soul; battling machines
totality subordination;
blindless co-operation
slaughterer, slayer,
men of blood, murderer,
turning off life
with your musket, fife
and drum
women fight their own clandestine war,
compassionate, coping, protecting,
- for sure
they ask for or receive no recognition;
for their desperate exhausting
frustrating condition
a choiceless choice;
propping up the destruction of life
(obliteration or eradication) of life
the wife;
with sensitivity, vitality, vivacity
- waits
CHORUS: women hang around;
or linger or stop or wait
big bombing, big bombing
- armoured troops coming
to invade our habitat;
if it comes to that
bloodshed
bloodletting
infinitesimal children being dead
dieing by a piece of lead
wives, materfamilias,
homestead makers, mothers
in blood (and tears) discoloured,
slightly tarnished
and completely stained soundlessness
woe, oh woe...
husbands, sons, brothers -
(or lovers)
lie
die
© Belinda R. Harris-Reid 2005
