The Cause

© jiva 2004

We aren't renowned for writing 'protest songs', but this one just sort of happened.

It started out as an anti-war song, decrying the centuries of bloodshed for senseless reasons, and it turned into a pro-peace song... but isn't that one and the same thing anyway?

Listen to MP3 extract

Jimmy and Val

Come me lads let’s join with the cause
Brothers together we will be
With God on our side we can kill who we will
We’re fighting for freedom and peace

How many times have we heard those words?
How many wars have there been?
How many lives have been lost needlessly?
Will the killing never cease?

Tell the brave politician
Tell the general and the priest
We’re not fighting in your war
So leave us alone to live in peace

Who can say what the fighting’s about?
May be religion maybe greed
For thousands of years we've heard the same shout
Inciting us to hatred and to fear

Tell the brave politician
Tell the general and the priest
We’re not fighting in your war
So leave us alone to live in peace

So come everyone and join with the cause
Every nation every colour every creed
Lay down your swords and your guns and your bombs
Weapons will never make you free

Tell the brave politician
Tell the general and the priest
We’re not fighting in your war
So leave us alone to live in peace

Tell the brave politician
Tell the general and the priest
We’re not fighting in your war
So leave us alone to live in peace

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