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Crass
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Christ The Album
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Major General Despair
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We're looking for a better world, but what do we see?
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Just hatred, poverty, aggression, misery
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So much money spent on war
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When three quarters of the world is so helplessly poor
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Major General Despair sits at his desk, planning a new mode of attack
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He's quite unconcerned about chance or risk
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The Major General's a hard nut to crack
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Oh yes, he designs a cruise missile, tactically sound, operationally OK
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While the starving crawl onto the deathpile
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They can't avoid their fate another day
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Attack on the mind, but he calls it defence
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But I ask you again who's it for?
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Do the starving millions who don't stand a chance
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Hope to benefit by his stupid war?
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Babies crippled with hunger before they could walk
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Mothers with dry breasts cry dry tears
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And meanwhile Major General Despair gives a talk
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On increasing the war budget over the years
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How can they do it, these men of steel
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How can they plot destruction, pain?
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Is it the only way they can feel
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By killing again and again?
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Is it some part of themselves that has died
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That permits them to plan as they do?
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Or is it us that is dead, do we simply hide
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From the responsibility to stop what they do?
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There's so many of us, yet we let them have their way
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As this moment they're plotting and planning
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We've got to rise up to take their power away
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To save the world that they're ruining
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They're destroying the world with their maggot-filled heads
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Death, pain and mutilation
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They've got the responsibility of millions of dead
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Yet they're still bent on destruction
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The generals and politicians who advocate war
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Should be made to wade in the truth of it
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They should spend sleepless nights shivering with fear
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And by day time should crawl in the deathpit
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They'll find the truth of what they've done there
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Festering corpses they and their kind made
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Eyeless skulls that endlessly stare
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Having seen the truth of military trade
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The earth was our home, the wind and the air
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The blue sky, the grass and the trees
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But these masters of war, what do they care?
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Only sentiments, these
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It's our world but through violence they took it away
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Took dignity, happiness, pride
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They took all the colours and changed them to grey
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With the bodies of millions that died
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They destroy real meaning through their stupid games
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Make life a trial of fear
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They destroy what values we have with their aims
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Make us feel it's wrong if we care
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Well, we do care, it's our home they've been at it too long
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If it's a fight they want, it's beginning
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Throughout history, we've been expected to sing their tired song
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But now it's OUR turn to lead the singing
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Fight war, not wars, make peace, not war
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Fight war, not wars, we know you've heard it before
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Fight war, not wars, make peace, not war
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Fight war, not wars, make love, not war
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1-2-3-4 we don't want your fucking war
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