War, war is stupid / And people are stupid / And love means nothing / In some strange quarters / War, war is stupid / And people are stupid / And I heard them banging / On hearts and fingers

War

People fill the world / With narrow confidence / Like a child at birth / A man with no defence / What’s mine’s my own / I won’t give it to you / No matter what you say / No matter what you do

Now we’re fighting / In our hearts / Fighting in the street / Won’t somebody help me?

War, war is stupid / And people are stupid / And love means nothing / In some strange quarters / War, war is stupid / And people are stupid / And I heard them banging / On hearts and fingers

War

Man is far behind / In the search for something new / Like as Philistine / We’re burning witches too / This world of fate / Must be designed for you / It matters what you say / It matters what you do

Now we’re fighting / In our hearts / Fighting in the street / Won’t somebody help me?

War, war is stupid / And people are stupid / And love means nothing / In some strange quarters / War, war is stupid / And people are stupid / And I heard them banging / On hearts and fingers

War…

After the bird has flown / He walked ten thousand miles back home / You can’t do that to me, no, you can’t do that to me / You can’t do that to me, no, you can’t do that to me

War / War

In this heart of mine I find a place for you / For black or white, for all the children too / Now we’re fighting in our hearts, fighting in the street / Won’t somebody help me?

War, war is stupid / And people are stupid / And love means nothing / In some strange quarters / War, war is stupid / And people are stupid / And I heard them banging / On hearts and fingers

No more war / I say no more war…

[By George O’Dowd – Jonathan Moss – Michael Craig – Roy Ernest Hay © Virgin Records / Epic Records, 1984]