This War Lyrics - Sacred Love - Sting

You've got the mouth of a she wolf 

inside the mask of an innocent lamb 

you say your heart is all compassion 

but there's just a flat line on your cardiogram 

Yet you always made a profit baby 

if it was a famine or a feast 

Yes, i'm the soul of indiscretion, 

i was cursed with x-ray vision, 

i could see right through all the lies you told, 

when you smiled for the television 

And you can see the coming battle 

you pray the drums will never cease 

and you may win this war that's coming 

but would you tolerate the peace? 

Investing in munitions 

and those little cotton flags 

invest in wooden caskets 

in guns and body bags, guns and body bags 

Your daddy was a businessman 

and it always made good sense 

you know the war can make you rich my friend 

in dollars, pounds and cents 

In the temple that was mammon's 

you were ordained the parish priest 

yes you may win this coming battle 

but could you tolerate the peace? 

Invest in deadly weapons 

and those little cotton flags 

invest in wooden caskets 

in guns and body bags 

you're invested in oppression 

investing in corruption 

invest in every tyranny 

and the whole world's destruction 

I imagine there's a future 

when all the earthly wars are over 

you may find yourself just standing there 

on the white cliffs of dover 

You may ask, what does it profit a man 

to gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul? 

is that your body you see on the rocks below 

as the tide begins to roll? 

And you invested in this prison 

from which you never got released 

you may have won this war we're fighting 

but would you tolerate the peace? 

There's a war on our democracy 

a war on our dissent 

there's a war inside religion 

and what jesus might have meant 

There's a war on mother nature 

a war upon the seas 

there's a war upon the forests 

on the birds and the bees 

There's a war on education 

a war on information 

a war between the sexes 

and every nation 

A war on our compassion 

a war on understanding 

a war on love and life itself 

it's war that they're demanding 

Make it easy on yourself 

and don't do nothing 

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