Prisoner Of Peace Lyrics - Skrewdriver

He stuck up for his country, but he didn't like the cost 

The European brother war, and lives were being lost 

He saw the grieving mothers whose sons could not be found 

He wanted peace to stop the endless coffins on the ground 

He got up on one morning and he went out to his plane 

He said good-bye to his wife, but doubts were in his brain 

To sue for peace was his idea in 1941 

But the bankers' grip was oh so tight, and the chance for peace was gone 

Chorus: 

Free Rudolf Hess 

How long can they keep him there? We can only guess 

I said free Rudolf Hess 

How long can they keep him there? We can only guess 

He never realized that day that chivalry had died 

Britain was in alien hands but at least a man had tried 

Forty years is a long long time in a prison cell to be 

And I feel ashamed at the sentence passed on a man who wanted peace 

(Repeat Chorus) 

And now the situation has changed in many ways 

The Allies want to let him go, they've decided he has paid 

The Red scum in the Kremlin with their kosher values try 

To keep a proud man locked away until the day he dies 

(Repeat Chorus) 

He's a prisoner of peace 

Kept there at the will of the Marxists in the east 

He's a prisoner of peace 

Kept there at the wishes of the Marxists in the east