Death Of War Lyrics - Electric Teepee - Hawkwind

(Brock Rowntree) 

Ebbing eyesight in chlorine clouds 

stealing away barbed wire shrouds 

mowed down in mud by machine gun fire 

trapped and strangled in barbed wire 

silent nights smashed as big guns fill bodies full of shrapnel 

in their crusade to kill 

Far away, politicians, glasses of port 

meet in a toast to a war they've not fought 

Holy fire directed and idly discussed 

manufacturing hatred, engineering distrust 

trading clarity for confusion, 

the ruthless powerlust. 

with those on the battlefield fallen down everywhere 

and that is their wine, has good body and it is red 

draining away forever like the blood of those dead. 

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