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The Last War

from Songs of War by David Savage

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lyrics

“The Last War” by David Savage

Chorus

Our life is in our hands. / Our hearts, our voices must create the plan / for love and peace, the Earth around now.

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The next war will be The Last War / 'cause there won't be any more / people to hate or to fight.

The Last War will be forevermore / and evermore and evermore, / an unending, unbroken night.

The next war will say it all. / Humanity couldn't hear the call / for world peace, nor the good song of life.

The Last War is just down the road / unless you and I take up the load / and speak up and speak out and make things right.

The next war will be The Last. / It's coming soon and it's coming fast / unless you and I disarm all the bombs.

The Last War might start tonight / by accident. An ungodly light / will radiate the tomb once called Earth.

The next war might start today. / It might be only a minute away. / We might already have seen the last birth.

A tragedy befell this race. / No epitaph would mark our place. / A burnt-out Earth drifting through space, I see.

Unless we act, and quickly now, / for death approaches in a cloud, / so sing for peace and sing it loud, my friends.

The next war will be The Last War. / This horror tale is a true story / unless we turn to love and peace our tale will end.

No one will see the humans fry. / No one will hear the final cry. / But just the same, the Earth will die a final death.

No second chance, we've had them all. / The Last War will be the final call, / the curtain falling down on our heads.

The end of day, the end of night, / the end of wrong, the end of right, / the end of could have, the end of might, all gone.

The next war will be The Last War. / The final score: all hits, no runs. / Zero ground for everyone, losers all.

Our children fear they won't grow up / and they are right, unless we stop, / the bombs will drop on everyone, sweetheart.

The future now is up to us. / Do we want to try? Do we care to trust / the best in us? In faith, we must, at last.

Copyright © 1982, 2001 David M. Savage
Davidsavage.bandcamp.com music@savageheart.com

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from Songs of War, released October 7, 2001

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David Savage Vienna, Virginia

David Savage has been composing and performing music since 1953. Instruments: cornet, harmonicas, keyboards, tenor sax, alto sax, guitar, cowbell, tambourine, claves, castanets, train whistles, slide whistle, and conch shell. Genres: rock, pop, jazz, folk, electronic, blues, children's, alternative, groove, experimental, ambient, environmental, poetry. ... more

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