The sunrise lights the sky as it breaks over the horizon    Blue suit and red tie getting ready for the day’s decisions    In a luxury car on the interstate      Calm and composed speaking dead words to deaf ears that won’t listen   He casts a vote and sends off guns, bombs, bullets and your children   To fight a foreign war to meet an unknown fate       Then outside on the steps at a news conference   He opens up his mouth and purges      “This is a unique time in our own history”    And it takes all of his strength to not laugh    As he talks of freedom, sacrifice, responsibility   Asks for God’s blessing of his war   Lights up a cigar and he drives home      The bombs blast light the sky as they burst over the heads of thousands   The innocent cry as their homes are crushed with family in them   They are collateral they aren’t significant       Now overseas the soldiers work hard to carry out all their orders   Given to them by the men in red ties still within their borders   Their legs are paralyzed their mouths are still working      Back behind a desk in his office    He looks over a speech he must give       “This is a unique time in our own history”    And it takes all of his strength to not laugh    As he talks of freedom, sacrifice, responsibility   Then he asks for God’s blessing of his war   Lights up a cigar and he drives home   …To his family   Home to a warm bed    Home to the affluence for which he voted    Himself is all he thinks of the days       Then a bomb drops upon a poor farmer’s son   Who needed money for an education   And he screams,   “This is the ending of my life’s brief history”       It takes all of his strength in that last breath to cry out   “I died for glory, honor, my beloved country”    And then the lids cover the light inside his eyes    Just like the flag over the coffin where he lies       Oh yeah, that hand over the camera when he arrives    How his family’s pain will be politicized    By all those heartless men wearing their redneckties