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Surgical Strike Lyrics
It's lonely in the field
that we send our fighters to wander
They leave with minds of steel
It's their training solution
We've programmed the way
It leads us to order
There's no turning back
A Surgical Strike
We've taught them not to feel
performance is their task
A Surgical Strike
Its time is arriving now for you
The plan for the day
will be swift as the lightning they harness
The act on display, it's no mindless solution
At master control, assessment will not
Be by humans
There's no turning back
A Surgical Strike
We've taught them not to feel
performance is their task
A Surgical Strike
Its time is arriving now for you
that we send our fighters to wander
They leave with minds of steel
It's their training solution
We've programmed the way
It leads us to order
There's no turning back
We've taught them not to feel
performance is their task
A Surgical Strike
Its time is arriving now for you
will be swift as the lightning they harness
The act on display, it's no mindless solution
At master control, assessment will not
Be by humans
There's no turning back
We've taught them not to feel
performance is their task
A Surgical Strike
Its time is arriving now for you
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War has turned into near-bloodless operations executed by pilots quoted as saying "it felt like a video game". As in the song, assessment was not by humans, but by machines peering through a camera lens. With the aid of super machines, man's language about war radically changes into terms about "surgery," "collateral damage" and "target-rich environments."
http://www.nucleusprog.com.ar/ingles/i-queensryche2.htm
Once dehumanizing language begins, the actions are certain to follow, and nearly impossible to halt. A bloody, terrible war - as all wars are and should be remembered, for our own sake - is reduced to a medical procedure like cutting out cancer. The disease is war, its symptoms deadly technology, the cure - human contact and understanding.
about our own demise, Another Rage song goes uncommented!
This is a highlight of the album. Great song.