Conflicting Idolatry lyrics

For ambition's sake is hewn

The idolatry of conflict

That warfare be of grand ideals

And not of realistic woes

Such grandeur is beset e're

By those who seek strength

To oppress, lest to be suppressed

But warfare is the milieu of youth

That strays afar in passing years

For none who wage its misery

Will keep close its impracticality

Those human resources waning

Give way to plotted soil rich

Fertilized in blood and bones

Their legacy forgotten below

But do not wake too late, too fast

When idle moments bring manifest

The realism of shared hopes, sorrow

That none shall ever triumph then

Those lower beings that slay

They in brutal means do so yet

For it is sustenance sought

That gives them life continual

Still men kill for naught but relief

That fills no hearts, no bellies dear

Not those that merit virtuous plight

But lies and prejudice unbased

Most blasphemous in God's name

For naught shall pass from here

Nor come to pass on its behalf

No hand can keep hold precious prize

Nor win favor by its reverement

So lend an ear to truthful triari

They have known well this valiant beast

And bear its tokens for all to see

But never to bare a skeined spirit

Beyond words of cautious thought

That war is truly hell, hell on earth

Made from conflicting idolatry

That gives no comfort to woeful souls

Remain still in its desolate wake