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The
lessons of another time have visited today,
(Let's listen well and maybe we will learn),
As history repeats itself and leaves us in
dismay,
(Let's listen well and maybe we will
learn).
For wars
have always been around and never go away,
(But we are deaf and dumb, and cannot see),
And many are the innocent caught up inside the
fray,
(But we are deaf and dumb, and cannot
see).
The
children are the innocent, the elderly the weak,
(How long will this abuse be theirs to bear?),
As nations fight with nations, but their leaders only
speak,
(How long will this abuse be theirs to
bear?).
The
lessons of another time are rarely ever learned,
(We stumble on and very often fall),
And when we think that we have won, we find that
we've been burned,
(We stumble on and very often fall).
We grieve
and bow in mourning for the children of our
youth,
(A legacy of hate is what we leave),
We tell them of the world around, but seldom tell the
truth,
(A legacy of hate is what we leave).
And so
the scene is played again and circles one more
day,
(They listen well, but they are deaf and dumb),
And elderly and innocent are still the ones who
pay,
(They listen well, but they are deaf and
dumb).
by David Ronald Bruce Pekrul
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