Rightly Jennings Poet Lyric

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. 

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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.

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Indiana Shaw September 4, 2017 at 11:17 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 . . . ; ) Rightly Jennings September 11, 2017 at 2:50 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.