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Don't Ask

A song by Bernard Carney©Bernard Carney 2003

Don't ask why you thought you knew the meaning of liberation
Don't ask why democracy's a word you thought you'd understood
Don't ask why you ever believed that war is not the answer
Don't ask why it always seems to take so much flesh and blood

Why does liberation carry such a price
Why is it democracy get's sacrificed
Don't ask - cos you don't wanna know
Don't ask - cos you're never gonna know

Don't ask why you thought you knew the meaning of the word invasion
Don't ask if the woman in the rubble ever made it alive
Don't ask if you thought the word peace was ever part of the equation
Don't ask if the baby in the bomb blast ever survived

Don't ask what it is that we think we've won
Or even the way in which it was done
Don't ask - cos you don't wanna know
Don't ask - cos you're never gonna know

How is it that our great ideals all end up on the floor
How is it we can't stop ourselves from sinking into war
I can't say that I'm right and I know that your not wrong
So all these questions end up in a song

Don't ask if what you read in the media isn't quite the full story
Don't ask if we think we've made the world a much safer place
Don't ask if you thought you were a part of the human family
Don't ask in the name of which god we can all embrace

Tired old questions running round my brain
Same old profits same old gain
Don't ask - cos you don't wanna know
Don't ask - cos you're never gonna know
Don't ask - cos you don't wanna know

Notes

Many thanks to Bernard Carney for permission to add this song to the Union Songs collection.

Bernard writes
"I wrote this song on 14th April 2003. It's about the misinformation we get during wartimes and how we need to redefine what we thought we understood."

Visit Bernard Carney's website at http://www.bernardcarney.com

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