War (Siex & Dejazz)

Silex
Cold to the bone, atrocities are committed/ Dead bodies indeed replace stones/ Individuals turn to clones, military brothers/ Submit to the orders, until the war is over/ Nobody can put the weapons down and knuckle under/ Soldiers fight, babies crying at night/ Wars engender diverging effects like/ Cocos and the Nazca plates/ Victims are traumatized, Families divided/ Children taken away, young girls kidnapped and traded/ Cruelly they end up as sex slaves/ Infected by aids/ Whole villages irradiated by raids/ Afraid, kids scared to death to be abducted by Armies like LRA/ Still people have faith/ Prayin' everyday for better days/ Wishin' to forget their enemies' face/ A few are rescued, many with no clue (no clue)/ Most die, physically or inside/ Leavin' only blood and cries, what's left to realize?/ Will the leaders finally look in the sky and say (say what?): “We've had enough of this nonsense!”/ What's to blame, why this violence?/ No war can ever have a valuable motive, break the silence/

Dejazz
Nuclear meltdown/ Apartheid in Cape Town/ Gun shots shape sounds/ That children hear/ Nuclear winter causing the coldest year/ People feeling cold war fear/ Cause there is still a threat of nuclear warfare/ In a state of poverty and welfare/ More money spent on the military budget than on health care/ Corporate sponsors and governments get the lion's share/ Caught in a colonial snare/ Over resources reserves flare/ Taste the blood in the air/ The earth is porous and absorbs the red tears/ Of gas a situation that can't be masked/ And is drawing out the crowd in mass/ Burying a child is not an easy task for a mother/ U.N. allows states to market lethal weapons/ That find there way in the hands of child soldiers/ Military's predatory tactics used to dishonour and dehumanize/ The ones who call others terrorists are the ones who terrorize/ Religion becomes politicized/ Hatred is used to incite genocide/ Conquer through divide/ The confusion is all lies that the media televised/ Wars are always strategized and the pot is comprised of the pieces of the prize/ In hydrocarbon society we live energy dependent lives/ Where oil is needed for the economy to survive/ We built a first world paradise by creating third world lives/ But to support it many more are going to die/ Middle eastern militants still respond to the law/ An eye for an eye it makes sense/ Around the world revolutionaries throw up clenched fist/ While paramilitary organizations playing risk/ To preserve the wealth of the rich/ And keep us in brackets/ The 99 percent in impoverishment/ Unity is strength, showing solidarity through the occupy movement/ Giving the class conscious awareness of the essence of the world's conflicts/ But we're fighting to get war abolished, yes sir!

Speech: Haile Selassie UN Speech (1963)