Benjamin Haycock - Pupil's War (Official Music Video)
Channel: Benjamin Haycock
Date: 2022-11-20

Click the following link to stream/download 'Pupil's War': https://ditto.fm/pupils-war

Huge thanks to the incredible Jonathan Pears, for directing, shooting and editing this video. 
(https://www.jonpears.com )
(https://www.instagram.com/jon.pears)

Song Credits:
Benjamin Haycock - Singer-Songwriter, Rapper and Rhythm Guitarist
Noah Gilbert (NG.Production) - Producer, Mastering Engineer, Electric Guitar & Drums
(https://www.instagram.com/ng.productions_ )

War/Refugee footage from the video - credit (all under YouTube Creative Commons License):

- Syrian refugee footage: (Footage: UNHCR) - (creative commons video used - FSmanifesto) = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbYYD7jK-qM

- Vietnam war footage (The Refugees - Department of Defence 1968): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q92htipdLEs 

- Bloody Sunday - Northern Ireland - 30 Jan. 1972, Derry, Northern Ireland): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0izN111lXUg 

- Ukraine War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Ddahz_d9Y

Creative commons video sources:
https://www.youtube.com/c/MaximChroni...
https://youtu.be/--uueAeOALM
https://t.me/RealdocProductions
https://vk.com/realdocproductions

Explosion from Syria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk96ib0B3QQ

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'Pupil's War' Lyrics:
We're drifting down the river
With no hope
With no purpose but our own
Men and women
Out there dying
For no cause
But when children look outside
All they see is war, all they see is war
All they see is violence in the eyes of men
And those who have to endure
They see is war, all they see is war
All they see is violence in the eyes of men
And those who have to endure

Born in a cold world full of lost souls
So we breathe smoke in and out
Scorched are our livers, scolded
As the pour of the liquor
Rolls down our mouth
Morphed into moulds
Of another's clone
We're becoming shorts of ourself
As the money draws us
Forever wallowing until we're corpses
And only dead fish follow streams
Down the river swallowing
Each other's greed
On the quest to be in the lead
We forget our morals
When we see the p's
We develop egos that compete
Indulged in our own feats
What's taken for granted
By me and you is another's dream
We can follow creeds
Read astronomy
And follow philosophical theology
But until we fathom actions speak
A louder volume than beliefs
We'll have war, casualties
Run by catalytic men
Who want to lead
Call me pacifistic
If you lack the vision
But there's children
Dying in the middle east

We're drifting
Down the river
With no hope
No purpose but our own
Men and women
Out there dying
For no cause
But when children look outside
All they see is war
All they see is war
All they see is violence
In the eyes of men
And those who have to endure
They see is war
All they see is war
All they see is violence
In the eyes of men
And those who have to endure
War
War

Most of our struggles are a facade when you see Ukrainian children
Shots fired leaving parts of bodies amidst the buildings
Bleeding and broken to pieces
Rogue fighters helping survivors
Leaving their young to cope with the grieving
Loading AK47's up
Their vision's altered
They listen to orders
Need more than miracles on these borders
Innocent auras being diminished quicker than disorder
In critical quarters
Losing their sanity on these mortars
Programmed for this war
Never finishing like a forum
It's causing a generation of children to question law
And order in this form
They can't have conformed to this torment
Capturing the core
Manifestation of war
Estimated devastation
Twelve million in displacement
Fleeing persecution and conflict to migrate
Refugees and nothing more
They can't have conformed to this torment
Capturing the core
Manifestation of war
They're refugees and nothing more
They can't have conformed to this torment
Capturing the core
Manifestation of war
They're refugees
And nothing more
They can't have conformed
To this torment
Capturing the core
Manifestation of war
They're refugees
And nothing more
They can't have conformed
To this torment
Capturing the core
Manifestation of war

We're drifting
Down the river
With no hope
With no purpose but our own
All they see is war


P.S. The song goes out to the people of Ukraine and to all of the children, women and men caught up in conflict and persecution throughout the world in war-torn zones. My heart goes out to you all.