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All your glorious battles, what did they amount to, what did they prove?

All for your pride of country,

All for your sacred democracy, rival national myths.

All for your rich ancestry of warmongers, you hailed as heroes.

 Don't believe in your jingoistic pride,

Riff

Their restrictions will never imprison me

Riff

Their poisons will never disable me.

Riff

Love is the force that drives me.

A better world will emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past.

 Considering tens of millions lost their lives in conflict,

 Surely it’s not too much to ask?

 Wars of religion, nationalism,

 made all the more devastating by advances in perverted science.

Led the innocent to early deaths, soldiers to shallow graves.

 How can you sleep at night?

Riff

When all I cry for is to be free.

Riff

When all I plea for is Anarchy.

Riff

Their slavery will never get the best of me.

Riff

Their restrictions will never imprison me.

Riff

Their poisons will never disable me.

Riff

Love is the force that drives me.

Riff

Hatred will never overtake me.