Guided By Voices A Farewell To Arms Lyrics

A Farewell To Arms Lyrics

Can you hear their cries?

Nowhere can the children run to hide

Crimson rivers



Flow down the hills

Atone our ills

And woe to all her songs of love



A farewell to arms



Mutilated lives

Blackening as coffin line the sides

Filled with
fathers



Who has won?

When only sons

Hold their
grieving heads and mourn



A farewell to arms



Always
our souls entwine

Erase this vast divide

Deaf ears our voices
rest

Tyrant, this is protest



Who has won?

Yes, who has
won?



[Chorus:]

I’ll wave this flag of white

So the
venged see the light

We’ll pay for closed eyes

With our
genocide



Piercing the masquerade

March to the death
parade

Trade no humanity

For pearls of the slavery



In
the depth of mind the heart will I find

The truth of our leader

We’ll try the facts so through the cracks

May fall the lying
cheater



Who has won when we’re all dead?



[Chorus]



So is this how we live?

Or is this how we die?



Black
blood dripping from platinum fangs

Rich blood flees while

Our
poverty hangs



Shepherds they herd the mindless trance

As the
flock follows the puppet’s dance

In a fatal romance



[Solo:
Demmel]



All that they needed was

A pretext, war’s next

Heads to the chopping blocks

And our necks are next

For those we
died

Who fought for our rights

Whose children now slaves

They’re turning in their graves



War hawks and senators

They sit tight, so trite

Never their sons will know

What it’s
like to fight

But soldiers are dead

And children have bled

And the silence is numb

What have we become?



God save
us



A farewell to Arms