Story Behind The Song
Song was written in protest of the United States' continuing escalation of war in the Middle East but applies to America's tendency to mindlessly start wars in other countries.
Song Description
Man protests the senseless wars that send thousands of men to die and leaves thousands of orphaned children, widows and grieving mothers behind.
| Song Length |
2:23 |
Genre |
Rock - Punk |
| Tempo |
Medium Fast (131 - 150) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Outraged, Enraged |
Subject |
War, Protest |
| Similar Artists |
Offspring, Green Day |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
V1
There are voices everywhere
Panic on the streets.
The bombs go off like thunder -
and thirty mothers weep.
V2
Rockets streak across the sky
in a torn and desolate world.
We brought these people freedom
and blew them all to hell.
CH
My fellow Americans
Tell me, if you will,
what does liberation mean
to 40 thousand killed.
All the lost and orphaned children,
All the men who lost their lives
All the blood and senseless slaughter
Under warm brackish skies.
V3
Men who kill for God and country
Or a wrong they have to right.
Men with murderous intentions
All say God is on their side.
V4
But ten thousand years of killing
and they still don't realize:
War is not the answer,
Just another way to die.
CH
My fellow Americans,
Tell the politicians please:
Bring our boys home, end the war,
Find another way to peace.
And the children keep on crying
And mothers bury their songs
And the blood, it flows like water
In the warm brackish skies.
And the bombs, they keep on falling
As we send our sons to die.
While the politicians argue...
Thirty mothers say goodbye.