I Don't Want to Start a War

Hippies in the black belt Where are they now?

I thought the racist devil

Was put to rest somehow Slouching in towards Gethsemane With thirty pieces of silver and gold Waiting on the tribal clans of old

Tie die peace sign flying

But a pillared mansion white

Have they swapped that rag for a MAGA flag In the thick aired Selma night?

While the chimes of freedom rust and rot In a death spiral out of control

When did we sell our holy souls?

I don't want to start a war

Sing with me a while

Let's get lost like we did before Peace and love fell out of style

I don't want to start a war

Not another Civil War

The zip tie guy and his mean old Ma

Wait for Sydney to file her brief

The QAnon Shaman in his buffalo hat

I swear we tripped with him on Shakedown Street Summer '86 Palo Alto bound

We were really on a roll

Just trying to expand our souls

I don't want to start a war

Sing with me a while

Let's get lost like we did before

Peace and love fell out of style

I don't want to start a war

Not another Civil War

Prankster turned to Brownshirt

I don't even want to know

The light shined bright back in our day Now the clouds hang dark and low Winter '21 now you're DC bound And you're damn sure on a roll

 

Now I'm trying to find your soul I don't want to start a war Sing with me a while

Let's get lost like we did before Peace and love fell out of style I don't want to start a war

I can't take the hate no more

Deadheads in the Delta Deadheads way down South Deadheads in the Delta Bless your heart

Hush your mouth

I don't want to start a war Not another Civil War

I don't want to start a war

I can't take the hate no more I don't want to start a war