Guernica

Bombs are falling from the sky, the stakes they just got higher

Wake up all the children, the village is on fire

An orgy of destruction explodes in black and white

Trying to comprehend the reasons why we fight

 Guernica, watch that village burn

 Guernica, will we ever learn?

People choke upon the smoke, can’t calculate the harm

Mother mourns her baby lying lifeless in her arms

Soldier with a severed hand lies bleeding on the ground

His horse displays a gaping wound, it makes a dying sound

 Guernica, our treasure and our blood

 Guernica, seeping through the mud

Life so fragile and peace so frail

The diplomats are hanging their heads

They’re setting up to fail

Pablo paints his canvas, he makes the horror last

Carnage and the violence, we gaze upon aghast

History so cruel, such hate we can’t explain

But we fire up our war machine and do it yet again

        Guernica, watch that village burn

 Guernica, will we ever learn?

        Guernica, our treasure and our blood

 Guernica, seeping through the mud

        Will we ever learn?