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The End of the War

There are people in the street One single voice can be heard All eyes are wide but they don't see Revolution does not mean The end of the war The end of the war Kings of the world 'round these parts grab all the money and run soon thereafter times get hard they're on to us with loan-sharks Take all the money and run, They don't stand for what they've done In another world, th`smell of your hair, th`touch of your skin is neither here nor there where am I to begin, for whom am I to care? It came to me in a dream and I believe ev'ry word No common ground in between and only the dead have heard The end of the war The end of the war Revolution means nothing and only the dead have seen The end of the war The end of the war The. . . . . end. . . of. . . . the. . war. ________________ This was actually a fast write, I'm very happy to get this one done. It'll be a mad blast to put on the stage. It sounds like an anti war song but it isn't, it just makes a relevant observation and asserts it's conviction that life is suffering.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




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Date: 9/4/2017 11:17:00 AM
What a brilliant little write - it grabs ones imagination and runs with it - however fast you wrote it I am just glad it made the finishing line . . . ; )
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Rightly Jennings
Date: 9/11/2017 2:50:00 PM
thanks, it's such a surprise to get any comments here. I'd forgotten that it's public. I was considering it more of an online storage point. Sort of flying off the back of something else, it was a pleasure to write. I'm ringing it these days.

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