Blind Soldiers, a plea for sanity. (crystalline...

As I seek peace and love and light
I wonder why the soldiers fight
When sent to battles not their own
In distant places far from home

A mother prays for peace somewhere
Neath shell and mortar's glowing glare
She speaks, but they don't understand
The death toll grows in her homeland

Tho children simply want to play
They'll die if they go out today
Horrific violence at their door
When will the children fear no more?

While pundits speak of casualty
The people see reality
While soldiers murder, rape, and die
We hear the politicians lie

A father buries his own son
He knows what lies and greed have done
Yet brother seeking to avenge
Kills innocents with his revenge

I try to channel energy
Send love and peace and harmony
Are prayers to make the blind to see
Just some crystalline fantasy?

The power hungry beat the drum
In answer soldiers blindly come
What duty does a soul fulfill
What honor gives the right to kill?

While thousands fill the streets and shout
"Stop killing now! Go home....Get out!"
These voices raised in protest cry
They scream the truth while people die

War is not just, to kill is wrong
Can't fool us with your dance and song
We all together channel love
While hawks swoop down and kill the dove

How dare you say I just don't know
Freedom takes pain and death to grow
The only "freedom" I can see
Is dirty deals and blood money

With open eyes I see the schemes
Of evil men, who kill the dreams
It isn't freedom they strive for
They profit from an endless war

If I can see this, so can you
I wonder why you choose not to
Is it just simpler to believe
The powerful when they deceive?

Marines gone crazy terrorize
Kill innocents despite the cries
Pregnant woman on the way
To hospital was killed today

As I seek peace and love and light
I wonder why the soldiers fight
When sent to battles not their own
In distant places far from home
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Universal Soldier lyrics
by Donovan



He's five foot-two, and he's six feet-four,
He fights with missiles and with spears.
He's all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen,
Been a soldier for a thousand years.

He'a a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain,
A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew.
And he knows he shouldn't kill,
And he knows he always will,
Kill you for me my friend and me for you.

And he's fighting for Canada,
He's fighting for France,
He's fighting for the USA,
And he's fighting for the Russians,
And he's fighting for Japan,
And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way.

And he's fighting for Democracy,
He's fighting for the Reds,
He says it's for the peace of all.
He's the one who must decide,
Who's to live and who's to die,
And he never sees the writing on the wall.

But without him,
How would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau?
Without him Caesar would have stood alone,
He's the one who gives his body
As a weapon of the war,
And without him all this killing can't go on.

He's the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame,
His orders come from far away no more,
They come from here and there and you and me,
And brothers can't you see,
This is not the way we put the end to war.

Chords:- F,G7,C,Am  Dm,Em