Intervention

I was driving through the fens in a peaceful english scene
Paid for by my grandfather the original gunners dream
I was taking life for granted though I was born to die
It's been a long, lont time since a bomb dropped from the expansive Norfolk sky
I was listening to the radio and the talk was war
Freed themselves from Tito settling old scores
Far from Sarejevo it seemed irrelevant to me
That it was U.N. troops or diplomats that had to intervene
We are impotent in our power
Do we dare to fight again
Must we always kill for freedom
What will intervention gain?
It's a symptom of repression and people held at bay
No freedom of expression waiting for this day to come
If we impose our standards on people newly freed
We will be the opressors
And the curse of war will breed on
Don't let it breed on
Don't let it breed on
Her cries went right through me
Gripped my heart till I thought that I would die
That little child on the operating table
I had to stop to wipe the tears from my eyes
They had no drugs to comfort her
To dull away the pain
As they removed the bloody legacy
A cruel shrapnel rain
That had destroyed the lives of many
Of the ones that she loved
Or would they shake your faith in the Lord above
And the eyes of the world
Why are they turning away?
She had no natural resources
To protect her in her play
And the backstreets of her home town
They are burning down in flames
She is part of a new kristallnacht
An ethnic cleansing day
We are ignorant we are partisan
We are ignorant we are partisan