All the Wars from Now On (Acoustic)

All the wars from now on

Hey Bill, hey Don, hey Roger, hey Ron

Four Purple Hearts full of war stories and local diner black coffee

They laugh, act a fool, talk some trash, shoot the bull

But they're sweet as a slice of chess pie with shrapnel still in their bodies

I couldn't help but sit there and watch 'em go about

And that's when it hit me, they got it figured out

All the wars from now on should be fought by old men

Who are old enough to know better now, knowin' better than back then

They'd set their weapons on the ground and crack a couple cold beers

Share Polaroids of their grandkids, let the black powder smoke clear

They'd play cards and shake hands, make some new friends

All the wars from now on should be fought by old men

Yeah, don't they usually send some poor mother's son?

Youth is wasted on the young

Recruit 'em right outta high school, hell, they won't know any better

They'll fight, yeah, they'll die and their hometowns will cry

And all that's left is some emptiness and a shaky handwritten letter

And it's been that way forever

All the wars from now on should be fought by old men

That are old enough to know better now, knowin' better than back then

They'd set their weapons on the ground and crack a couple cold beers

Share Polaroids of their grandkids, let the black powder smoke clear

They'd play cards and shake hands, make some new friends

All the wars from now on should be fought by old men

There'd be peace on Earth every day

Hell, ain't they the ones that usually start them anyway?

All the wars from now on should be fought by old men

Who are old enough to know better now, knowin' better than back then

They'd set their weapons on the ground and crack a couple cold beers

Share Polaroids of their grandkids, let the black powder smoke clear

They'd play cards and shake hands, make some new friends

All the wars from now on

All the wars from now on