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If Killing Worked


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Turn on your TV, see what they've done?
They've made our culture look like a setting sun
But we're better than that, because we know how
If killing worked, it would have worked by now

We're all grunts in the human army
Four million at war and one billion starving
Sick to death of those old boys rules
We'll make our future or we'll die like fools

For how can we live, when all that we've learned
Is to give more pain in return?

If killing worked, it would have worked by now

How can we live when all that we've learned
Is to give more pain in return?
And how can we live until we all learn
Just to be more kind in return?

If killing worked, it would have worked by now

Turn on your TV, see what we've done?
Our culture looks like a setting sun
But we're better than that, because we know how
If killing worked, it would have worked by now