Assumptions Of War lyrics

Malice of colour, uniform, religion

That God does not know or see

For all are born and die alike

Given to the assumptions of war

If one should offend another

So grieviously as to forfeit much

That one most precious and valued

For life should be sacredly kept

Traded so easily for known wrong

By the herding instinct of thought

Where the lost are easily swayed

The grounded are disillusioned

In an atmosphere of extremes

Always hot, dry, wet, or cold

And disease thrives like hatred

Consuming those allowing such

The unwary die like the sinister

Noble thoughts of justice grand

Ideals ethnocentristic live briefly

Death far and away outlives them

Politics are faceless men distant

Their redirect feeding the slaughter

For there are always the disgruntled

Unattached to cooperative norms

They feed the earth with blood

Ultimately a sacrifice themselves

In the end the dust draws up

Covering their corrupted remains

The good despise war's errs

It is known to them, like bullies

Childhood with consequences

Dire and undoable unlike games

In this fight, like in any fight

No one walks away unscathed

No one waves flags on gloriously

For this, the assumptions of war

Though it will always be so

For our species learns too slow

Perhaps the purpose to minimize

The suffering that never ends