Wall of silence

There's a strange kind of war

Where words do the fighting

Behind every message, a bomb

Booby-trap all along 

The wall of silence

Before a broken dawn 

A single bird in the sky

Just before the moment

Of the first lie 

That started it all

There's a strange kind of war 

Where people are fighting

And children are dying

The cats are all crying

The politicians are lying

The heat intensifying

That day has turned to night 

In the darkness of white 

And the smoke of tonight 

Whichever is lying

As the blood pouring

There's a strange kind of war 

It's starting today

That began yesterday

In the trenches 

Yet there is safety non 

That mud cannot hide 

The fright that subsides 

When you see your mate dying, 

Suffering, 

Choking, frying, 

With the smoke in his eyes 

In a world full of lies

There's a strange kind of war

A war of silence 

That a bird flies above

To see it all destroyed in the mud 

Where is the love? 

Every helmet; every mine

Every treaty, every crime 

In the darkness and the smoke

In the puff of human choke 

And misery 

Is a strange kind of war

That is a wall of ultimate defiance 

Do not forget the dead 

Nor the bird with human lead

That died here 

This very day in these trenches 

In the eyes that cry along with 

The piercing silence in the 

The wall of silence 

Silence, 

Of war.