Lessons Not Learned

Mothers and daughters to the factory floor The country's in trouble we're off to War All the young men in battle over there Everyone pitchs in to do their own share Can we find meaning for what seems insane? Tools for destruction we help build the planes In the end so many men will be lost Families destroyed but a piece of the cost The goal is freedom paid for with young lives Children orphaned, mothers no longer wives Nineteen fortyfive our victory day Row upon row all the dead soldiers lay Still it seems we repeat mistakes from the past We thought that our lessons were made to last Peace temporary we keep going back We can't claim truth if it's us who attack