Here Comes The War (live)

Today, as you listen to this song
 Another 394, 000 children were born into this world
 They break like waves of hunger and desire upon these eroded shores
 Carrying the curses of history and a history yet unwritten
 The oil burns in thick black columns, the buzz saws echo through the forest floor
 They shout give us our fair share, give us justice
 Here comes the war
 On a grey morning to the south of here
 Two young men in makeshift uniforms peer into the misty light
 And figures dart behind the trees
 As a snap of rifle rounds echoes out across the fields
 They hardly know their sacred mother tongue but they know their duty
 To defend the flag hanging limp and bloody above the village church
 While a thousand miles away, in a warehouse complex down by the river,
 Young money men play paintball games
 Here comes the war - put out the lights on the Age of Reason
 So blow out the candle and tell us another of those great stories,
 the ones about serial killers. Let dreams flow into savage times.
 Do you hear the sirens scream across the city?
 We've had three hot nights in succession - the riot season is here again
 Dear Lord, lead us back into the Valley of the Shadow of Death,
 Here comes the war. Did you think we were born in peaceful times?
 Faster, faster, like a whirling dervish spinning round
 Faster, faster, until the Centre cannot Hold
 You screamed give us Liberty or give us Death
 Now you've got both, what do you want next?
 Here comes the war - put out the lights on the Age of Reason.