song written by Don Anderson, shortly after 9/11…

I was watching my tv
It was either n or abc
A man in medals talked about a war he’d never see
F  G    C   G/B Am      F  G    C   G/B Am  F  G
And they said that it was news but they kept showing cartoons
And they didn’t make it funny like bugs bunny used to do

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I reached for my rum and coke But I sat on my remote
Got a station in one of those languages of people who don’t vote
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Up in outer uhf and I had to catch my breath
Bodies burning, mothers mourning a grim spectacle of death

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Now the chinese or the japanese I didn’t understand
But it seemed to me from the lack of trees that it was afghanistan
And I saw a man in a dirty beard with an old kalashnikov
Who knelt and prayed apparently to good old god above

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And I wonder does god know
What’s been done in his name down here below
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Does he stop to check his messages does he stop to watch the show?
Now it must get so confusing, does he feel like he’s winning or losing
Does he forget which side he’s on based on which nsame of his they’re using
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When god needs to know the truth does he tune into cnn
Or does he get al jazeera up in heaven

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Back down in vhf
It was c or p or maybe pure bs
A man named george said that we shouldn’t get upset
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But the generals were pissed saying maybe we did miss
But the babies in that hospital had no right to exist

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And the bombs continued falling,  And both sides continued calling
For god’s vengeance on the infidels but god continued stalling
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And the governments kept lying
About the numbers that were dying
And somewhere in the desert some more babies stopped crying

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And I waqtched a show about the folks who died a month ago
A young man stood and tolds his dad that he still loved him so
A tribute to the innocents whose death came by surprise
And to the firefighters who so bravely gave their lives

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And I wonder do they know?
What’s been done in their names down here below?
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What do they think of our justice can they stand to watch the show?
One more child torn from his mother, one more sister lost her brother
Two more fathers blown to bits til they can’t be told from the other
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When they want to know the truth do they tune into cnn
Or do they get al jazeera up in heaven

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Do they get deutsche weil, do they get rai
Do they get telemundo in the land beyond the sky
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If god does know all things, then he can’t rely on cnn
And he don’t need al jazeera up in heaven