I´ve known no war
And if I ever do I won´t know for sure
Who´ll be fighting whom
For the soldiers lonely tomb
Now it´s over as soon as the referee´s gun starts to roar
I´ll know no war

Galbraith took his pen
To break down the men
Of the German army defeated
On the nineteenth day
Of a spring day in May
Albert Speer was deleted
And as soon as the battle was over
I was born in victorious clover
And I´ve never been shot at or gassed
Never tortured or stabbed
And I´m sure - I´ll never know war

I know I´ll never know war
And if I ever do
The glimpse will be short
Fireball in the sky
No front line battle cries
Can be heard as the button is pushed
By a soul that´s been bought
I´ll know no war

In and out of Queens shop
The medals are hocked
They belong to a long broken sailor
His profits are now
In the bars of the town
His songs and his poems of failure
For his grandchildren can´t see the glory
And his own kids are bored with the story
But for him they´d have burned in the trenches
From the brink they were dragged
And I´m sure
I´ll never know war

I´ve known no war
And if I ever do I won´t know for sure
Who´ll be fighting whom
For the soldiers lonely tomb
Now it´s over as soon as the referee´s gun starts to roar
I´ll know no war

War - I´ve known no war
I´ll never know war
And if I ever know it
The glimpse will be short
Fireball in the sky
No front line battle cries
Can be heard as the button is pushed by a soul that´s been bought
And the armies remaining will judge without people or courts
And there´s no point pretending that knowing will help us abort
I´ll know no war