if everybody does it can it be wrong? Lyrics

Everybody has an army

Everybody has parades

Everybody has statues

To put their heros on display

Some are for those who lead and lied

Some are for those who followed and died

The statues stand in the sun alone

Home for pigeons, collecting dust

No one now remembers much

They only know that long ago someone had to die

They only know they are glad it wasn't you or I

Everybody has a god

Everybody's faithful to it

They use his words to extend a hand

They use the same to send a bullet

In the end it's not about god

His words or their faith

It's about power money and greed

Fueled by cowardice fear and hate

God will forgive them in the end is the lie they tell themselves

It doesn't matter what they do is what they think

Everybody has their science

Everybody makes wonder drugs

Everybody uses science

To find better ways to kill ourselves

Billions for tanks and bullets and drones

Not for medicine food and homes

All this good gets blown in the wind

Of the blast from the last bomb they build

Three things at which we excel

The third is killing, man plant and beast

The second is the sorrow for the bloody aftermath

The first and best is we close our eyes and ears

And do it all again year after year