UB40 Securing the Peace song lyrics

Securing the peace then preparing for war

And the people don't know what they're fighting for

Securing the peace then preparing for war

And the people don't know what they're fighting for

In peacetime sons bury their fathers

In war fathers bury their sons

The dead are all labeled as martyrs

And the living inherit the bullet and the gun

If religious crusade is your calling

Ask your god if he'll stop the bombs falling

On the heads of the poor that were silenced today

They were wailing so loud you can't hear yourself pray

A single death is tragic, a million a statistic

To say the war is fought for peace sounds cynically sadistic

Take your prayers and take your blaspheming

To the graves where the mothers are screaming

You can't convince me that you feel the loss

The last real Christian you killed on the cross

And while the world plays hide and seek

To cover up the violence

Innocence claims the right to speak

And guilt the right to silence