A World Away

Описание: This song is about the horrific war the US and Israel are waging against Iran. I wrote the lyrics, but reluctantly used AI to create the music since I can't play or sing right now. If I had a band, I would call it the Middle Aged Poets Militia (MAPM). If you like this song, please like, comment, and share. If you know musicians, it's open for use. Lyrics by Gilbert Schramm, video editing by Carol Schramm.

Lyrics:
A World Away

Those bombers you cannot detect
Lift heavily from the carrier decks
We won’t be risking our necks
Our cities won’t be burned and wrecked

A world away our bombs are falling
In morning light the birds are calling
Rising from the new spring’s growth
And somewhere near a child is bawling

When the invisible planes have all flown on
The things they passed above are gone
Then fearful villagers come forth
To gaze in dread at this new dawn

To go to war without real reason
Is the very worst of treasons
Betrays our people and our nation
In a fundamental desecration

Do stealth planes leave their shadows on the ground
Do they even make a sound?
Proof of their passing lies all around
But war crime guilt is seldom found

A world away, far from our minds
We do not see the missiles strike
We can’t comprehend, fly blind
Here we can’t see the planes or mines

This war seems a world away
But it’s just down your street,
Just down the way,
Near places where our children play

In seemingly innocent offices down halls
Down harmless plazas and new malls
Where suited men at cyber screens
Launch our attacks and record their screams

In Washington where they make up the lies
They hide from us just what is real
How can we really understand or feel
The kind of life and lives we steal?

We never see the trigger pulled
The bullets strike, the victims fall
How can we possibly feel appalled
We really don’t see much at all

…and so we rarely get excited
When another senseless war’s ignited
We rarely see the warships sail
Or the children and the widows wail

The war is many worlds away
And not our problem, not our call
How did the enemy provoke our ire?
They failed to do what we required

That’s where they went sadly wrong
They didn’t want to sing our song
Chose the wrong men to lead them on
But then we too have all been conned

And we have more than our target to answer for
Even though no bombs greet us at the door
There may be nothing at the reactor’s core
Or maybe the president just got bored…

And after all this war today
Is many, many, worlds away
And some say is already won,
The light is failing now, the day is done

A world away the long night comes
What we have wrought can’t be undone
We may one day find we are the ones
A world away from everyone

And like all those who suffer, die, or run
When our merciless bombers come
We may find ourselves at last
At the wrong end of the gun

And then go down alone,
Finally undone