A Different Kind Of War Lyrics - Singles - David Wilcox

from Unreleased 

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There was a long haired guy who drew a crowd outside 

He got them all angry over national pride 

He was talking of the war that's on our shore 

And how we've never had to fight so hard beforer 

It's a war to fight and a war to win he said 

But how do we strike and where to begin? 

We want to kill those guilty of the crimes they've made 

But they don't live in one city; there's no fortress to invade 

This war is psychological and it starts right here 

So in my defiance, I will not live in fear 

Because fear is their weapon so I won't give in to that 

They know that fear turns to rage, and thats just their trap 

The way they win is to make us strike back 

They want us to launch a dreadful counterattack 

The more people that die at the hand of our nation 

The more hate it will breed in the next generation 

In this kind of war, they're not after our land 

They want their children's blood on our vengeful hands 

They want to make us act like an angry mob 

So we look like a bully that hates their god 

Their plan is to hurt us with our own brute force 

Like a herd stampeding down a deadly course 

If they can get us running with a rage like this 

They can lead the free world off the edge of a cliff 

And the cliff is to fall for the trap they've sprung 

To make us play the role of the vengeful one 

They want us to chase them and hunt them down 

To kill their people and burn their towns 

The few guilty people are happy to die 

If they can make us kill a few thousand more besides 

Becuase the death of the innocents just fuels the flame 

Until the next war starts and its all the same 

And the future unfolds for a hundred years 

As the terror grows and it breeds more fear 

So who will decide the future of our nation? 

Will we follow along with their invitation? 

The invitation is to trust our hate 

To let revenge define our fate 

To never see that it's a different war 

And we can't fight the same way we fought before 

We're not hunted by a tiger, or a lion or a shark, its more 

Like FIRE that's the danger and the enemy's a spark 

But the trickiest spin that the devil could twist 

Was convincing the world that he didn't exist 

If you don't believe in evil, then they're just dangerous men 

And you'll fight fire with fire, and you'll be just like them 

An eye for an eye, time after time 

Eye after eye until the whole world is blind 

If our enemy is evil, like a virus of the mind 

And its moving through the body of all humankind 

Then the evil brilliance of this virus which is hate 

Is that our natural reaction makes it replicate 

We want to shoot at a target thats easy to find 

But the enemy is in us - all humankind 

We want to kill the invader like we could in the past 

But you can't kill a virus with a shotgun blast 

This is not a nation that we're up against 

If it's good against evil what's our best defense? 

The man on the street was drawing a crowd 

Some people got angry and voices got loud 

The crowd answered back to the sidewalk guy 

That we must have revenge for the people that died 

But the man kept talking about love and light 

As if that were any way to fight the fight 

And a scuffle started and they hauled him in 

He was convicted of crimes and convicted of sins 

And for national safety and religious pride 

That sidewalk preacher was crucified 

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David Wilcox - copyright 2001