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Intervention

I was driving through the fens in a peaceful English scene,
Paid for by my grandfather - the original gunners dream.
I was taking life for granted though I was born to die,
It's been a long long time since a bomb dropped from the expansive Norfolk sky.

I was listening to the radio and the talk was of war,
Freed themselves from Tito settling old scores.

I was far from Sarajevo, it seemed irrelevant to me
If it was UN troops or diplomats that had to intervene.
We are impotent in our power. Do we dare to fight again?
We must always kill for freedom. What will intervention gain?

It's a symptom of repression and a people held at bay,
No freedom of expression waiting for this day.
If we impose our standards on a people newly freed,
We will be the oppressors and the curse of war will breed on.

Don't let it breed on…
Don't let it breed on…

Her cries went right through me,
Gripped my heart till I thought that I would die.
That child on the operating table,
I had to stop to wipe the tears from my eyes.

They had no drugs to comfort her to dull away the pain
As they removed the bloody legacy of cruel shrapnel rain
That had destroyed the lives of many, of the ones she loved,
That would shake your faith in the Lord up above.

And the eyes of the world they are turning away:
She had no natural resources to protect her in her play
And the backstreets of her home town they are burning down in flames…
She is part of a new crystal night, an ethnic cleansing day.

We are ignorant, we are partisan…
We are ignorant, we are partisan…

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