St. Valentine's Day, 1991

 

I'll sing you a song of St. Valentine's Day

In 1991

When the dogs of war pissed on my door

And it seemed all hope was gone

And it seemed that Christ had forgotten about

Me and the kind and the meek

And all that was left on St. Valentine's Day

Was a quick kiss on the cheek.

 

Now, out on the edge where East meets West

The officer made his way

Into the ravine where he could see

His Iraqi lover lay

And he kissed him once, and said there was no time

And 'cause he loved him well

He told him the order had come that day

To bomb them into hell.

 

But what could he do, he couldn't refuse

And what matter if he did

For the dogs of war have jaws of steel

In which millions of teeth are hid

So they lay there till the bombers came

And as the sirens wailed their alarms

They wept and fired his M16

And died in each others arms

 

Now here I am, and I wax rich and fat

In the West with our restaurants and bars

And the drool from the fangs of the dogs of war

Grows our food and drives our cars

But my love won't give me a kiss on the cheek

She says I'm a moody swine

And she's damned bloody right, 'cause both day and night

The murdering's on my mind

 

She's certainly right when she says I've no right

To take it out on her

But the rant and the roar of the dogs of war

Has got my mind astir

And all over the world boys and girls

And combinations thereof

Ares struggling and crying and often dying

To make this world fit for love

 

This war will go on, and after this

Another war will come

So I'll probably be a moody swine

Until my days are done

Still I pick up my pen and I try once again

To finish this bloody song

But I'd like to say this St. Valentine's Day

I hope I'm bloody wrong.

 

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