Back To The Trenches Lyrics - Nazareth

Presidents and peace spreading poets 

Getting gunned down in the streets 

Shown to us on our prime time screens 

For our tea time treat 

Lunatics we voted for denying 

Everything that they swore 

We sit around and shout about it 

But we don't do nothing more 

Drafted for police action 

But they decided on a war 

Telling us we were saving mankind 

Why don't you ask cambodia 

We were solving it with marijuana 

We were sure that we could 

Always leavin' it to someone else 

Just knocking on wood 

We're goin' back to the trenches 

We're goin' back to the trenches 

Well you say you got a say so 

But you're knowin' that it ain't so 

And you turn away 

You think it's safer to ignore it 

But the score is your children have to pay 

Everybody wants better 

Everybody talkin' 'bout it 

Are we wastin' time 

Gotta stop only lookin', talkin' 

We're all guilty of the crime 

We're goin' back to the trenches 

We're goin' back to the trenches 

We gotta move, we got everything to lose 

We gotta move, we got everything to lose 

We're all headed for the front 

But everybody's fightin' for a good address 

It's time we made the changes 

Or we'll be burnin' with the rest 

We just ain't communicatin' and I don't 

Mean conversations on the telephone 

When nero starts to fiddle this time 

There's a lot more gonna burn than rome 

We're goin' back to the trenches 

We're goin' back to the trenches 

We're goin' back to the trenches 

We're goin' back to the trenches 

(written by nazareth) 

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