War Zero

During the Vietnam war I was a young boy. I would see the news on TV, the Walter Cronkite era, and they would do this statistical report - the body count. This is one of our anti war songs, posted on Remembrance Day.
I wondered if it is fitting to say war is not right when we remember the sacrifice of war. I think so. One of the messages of war should always be that it is wrong to die this way.
War keeps changing and it seems there always will be war. But is does not have to be done.
Andy Slide
Nic Yown demo 1

War Zero

Watched war on TV

When I was just a kid

Evening news body count

And scenes of napalm

Burning, bombs and guns

Homecoming leg less

Veins to drugs hooked

Minds fried, totally cooked

Some say theres always been war

Some say it has to been done

It will only be right

When the count goes to zero

It will only be right

When the count goes to zero

Now it's Afghanistan

Soon maybe Iran

The war on terror

Won't make any peace

Just make people dead

It gets in your head

There's not a single word

To numb what we've heard

Some say theres always been war

Some say it has to been done

It will only be right

When the count goes to zero

It will only be right

When the count goes to zero

People Losin’ Work

Houses up for sale

Feed the war machine

Its tanks and guns

Bleed the country dry

Poor folk on the rise

Not enough to eat

Kids ain’t got no shoes on their feet

Some say theres always been war

Some say it has to been done

It will only be right

When the count goes to zero

It will only be right

When the count goes to zero

Hollywood is cranked

Another dead Canuck

Movies need a hero

That's so totally fucked

The house is acting lazy

Majority now rules

On and on they rag

While another comes home, in a body bag

Some say theres always been war

Some say it has to been done

It will only be right

When the count goes to zero

It will only be right

When the count goes to zero