To War! - Mike Harris
Channel: Mike Harris
Date: 2022-03-07

Mike performs his song To War!

Lyrics:

I travelled the World but the World was lost,
I took my gun from its holster and I hung it on the cross,
I wiped the sweat from my brow with the back of my hand,
I stood up to be counted in the place that I stand,

And I cried aloud to Jesus, but that child was grown and moving on,
The scribbled lines thus betrayed us, like the canticles that followed along, 
Whilst the standing stones just stood there with our voices hanging in the air,
You passed the golden chalice and deep we drank of our despair,
We grabbed our swords and horses and off we rode,
Just like before:
To war!
To war!
To war!


They raised the spectre of war but the War was lost,
I put my gun back in its holster; they’d set fire to the cross,
I stood on the sidelines as the tanks rolled in,
Watched the theatre in action; heard the tumultuous din,

They cried out loud for Jesus, but salvation wasn’t due that day,
The empty prayers betrayed them, whilst the title-credits just rolled away, 
And the anchor-people stood there with the missiles flying in the air,
You passed the comic’s notebook and deep we laughed out of despair,
I faxed the politburo the news they knew always before:
It’s War!
It’s War!
It’s War!


You had hope for the World but the World was lost, 
They’d burned down the churches, the synagogues, the mosques,
I wiped the blood from your face with my own bloodied hand,
Grabbed the battle-torn banner of our rag-taggle band,

Then you gave yourself to Jesus but the Son was lost to His Father’s will,
The canticles thus faded out as the calvary came in for the kill,
The lightning bloody bayonets; the horses dying everywhere,
As mine it fell asunder she wiped my brow of all despair,
So I grabbed the ten and sold my soul to be anywhere but not anymore
In this War,
This War,
This War.