Over the ashes of blood marched the civilized soldiers,   Over the ruins of the french fortress of a failure   Over the silent screams of the dead and the dying   Saying please be reassured, we seek no wider war.      The treaties were signed, the country was split into sections   But growing numbers of prisons were built for protection   Rapidly filling with people who called for elections   But please be reassured, we seek no wider war.      Ngo dinh diem was the puppet who danced for the power   The hero of hate who gambled on hell for his hour   Father of his country was stamped on the medals we showered   But please be reassured, we seek no wider war.      Machine gun bullets became the bloody baptizers   And the falcon copters don't care if someone's the wiser   But the boy in the swamp didn't know he was killed by advisers   So please be reassured, we seek no wider war.      And fires were spitting at forests in defoliation   While the people were pressed into camps not called concentration   And the greater the victory the greater the shame of the nation   But please be reassured, we seek no wider war.      While we were watching the prisoners were tested by torture   And vicious and violent gasses maintained the order   As the finest washington minds found slogans for slaughter   But please be reassured, we seek no wider war.      Then over the border came the bay of pigs planes of persuasion   All remaining honor went up in flames of invasion   But the shattered schools never learned that it's not escalation   But please be reassured, we seek no wider war.      We're teaching freedom for which they are yearning   While were dragging them down to the path of never returning   But, we'll condescend to talk while the cities are burning   But please be reassured, we seek no wider war.      And the evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders   But the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers   And a world of hunger in vengeance will always remember   So please be reassured, we seek no wider war,   We seek no wider war.