Everybody Knows

Everybody knows there’s a war going on, everybody knows there’s a war. / Everybody knows about the kids that don’t come home. / Yeah, I heard it’s gonna be a long war. // Everybody knows about the bodies in the streets, everybody knows there’s a war. / Everybody knows about the mothers and the beasts / Bloodying the Babylon floor. // But could you help us see the reason, / ‘cause it sure ain’t to keep the peace. / For every civilian that we’re slaying, / there’s another war-torn family rising up in hate. // Everybody knows there’s a war going on, everybody knows there’s a war. / Everybody knows about the money being made / By the men behind the closed, locked doors. // Everybody knows we like meddling in affairs, everybody knows there’s a war. / Over seven-hundred bases in one-hundred-and-twenty different countries / Makes you wonder what we’re staying for… // Can you imagine what we’d do here / if some foreign power occupied our soil, / And tried to tell us how to live here, / as their bombs ripped through our boys and girls? // Everybody knows there’s a war going on, everybody knows there’s a war. / Everybody knows you gotta reap what you sow, / So get in line for the fruits of war! // Everybody knows it’s the Christian thing to do, everybody knows there’s a war. / Why Jesus Christ, Himself, would probably blow ‘em straight to Hell, / While pissing on the golden rule! //And it don’t matter who is in office. / Or are you still too blind to see? / This war machine rolls on undaunted. / How long before you think it rolls over you and me?