UB40 - Securing the Peace 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