Generals And Majors Lyrics

Lyric discussion by falcotron 

Cover art for Generals And Majors lyrics by XTC

It's funny how in 1980 we all believed the generals and majors wanted a big glorious war. What they really wanted was an easy win, like the Falklands or Grenada.

Sure, we did come scarily close to the end of the world anyway a few times by accident (Able Archer 83, etc.), but we got lucky, and got a decade of great music out of our collective desperation, so maybe it was all for the best.