Karaoké War Isn't Murder Jesse Welles

War isn't murder

Good men don't die

Children don't starve and all the women survive

War isn't murder

That's what they say

When you're fightin' the Devil murder's okay

War isn't murder

They're called casualties

There ain't a veteran with a good night's sleep

Let's talk about dead people

I mean a-dead people

The dead don't feel honor

They don't feel that brave

They don't feel avenged

They're lucky if they got graves

Call your dead mother

Ask her when she died

It's a deathly silence on the other line

The dead don't talk but the children don't forget

So in twenty short years you could live to regret that

War isn't murder

There's money at stake

Girl even Kushner agrees it's good real estate

War isn't murder

Ask Netanyahu

He's got a song for that and a bomb for you

War isn't murder

It's an old desert faith

It's a nation-state sanctioned righteous hate

Let's talk about dead people

I mean a-dead people

War isn't murder

It's the vengeance of God

If you can't see the bodies they don't bloat when they rot

And the flies don't swarm and the children don't cry

If war isn't murder good men don't die

So in a short twenty years when you vacation the Strip don't think about the dead and have a nice trip

War isn't murder

We should all give thanks

I saw it all in a movie

Give it up for Tom Hanks

War isn't murder

They don't ship out the poor

And the bullets they fire aren't part of the cure

War isn't murder

Land is a right

But the banks called dibs

It's somethin' you can't fight

Let's talk about dead people

I mean a-dead people

The dead don't feel honor

They don't feel that brave

They don't feel avenged

They're lucky if they got graves

War isn't murder

Ain't a river of blood

Stretchin' all-through time and rainin' down in a flood

It's a dark sacrifice made on your behalf

So get down on your knees and thank the sweet Lord that

War isn't murder