The Grand Illusion

Enemy soldier
"Come to talk to me-e!"

Enemy soldier
"Come sing with me-e!"

General ordering
"Don't get alo-ong!"

General pleading
"Don't sing that so-ong!"

General snarling
"You'll fight in the e-end!"

General slithering
"When they kill your fri-e-end!"

General panic
"Just got to beg-in!"

God's sacred soldier
"Don't want to fi-ight!"

God's sacred soldier
"Don't tell me what's ri-ight!"

Good soldiers leaving
"Not gonna st-ay!"

Battlefield empty
Kids call it ga-ay-ay!

Politicians angry
"There's no other wa-ay!"

Hopeless souls swoon
"War must be so-o!"

Angry men wail
"Don't let it go-o!"

Losers' lament
"War is all we kno-ow."