Painting by Numbers

Lets start a war Lets start a war What the hell do you all these new bombs are for? I'm feeling generous today And I'm itching to make a charity donation There are some orphan bombs who only want to do their jobs And need a place to detonate Lets start a war And give a home to these explosion Lets start a war I could say that I'm not smashing piggy banks for all this killing But I'll just turn away and breathe in the stream of shopping bags and half-price tags and giveaways We hold the purse we hold the reins We can deny these spoiled kids their next allowance But when they start shoving 'round like bullies on a playground We shake our pockets for more change Lets start a war 'Cause i'm a sucker for a good fight Lets start a war Will we say taht we're not buying any toys for naughty children? No we'll just turn away and pass the buck off to the governments who kill off all the dissidents And let our culpability dissolve out in the acid rain So everyone grab your nuclear brush And your palette of industrial sludge And paint a sunrise so dark it will never return So please stop acting like this comes from somebody else 'Cause we've commissioned this painting ourselves So just sit back and relax and scatter limbs like Picasso, spatter blood like Pollack Art critics are standing by To declare this a wonderful sight Lock and load all your checkbooks, we'll fill this gallery It's such a classic tapestry Full of weapons and violence and need We will hang it in the finest museums of history.