An Untitled Protest-Country Joe & The Fish

[ti:Crystal Blues] [ar:Country Joe & The Fish] [al:The Collected (1965-1970)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]An Untitled Protest - Country Joe & The Fish [00:06.96]Red and swollen tears tumble from her eyes [00:15.37]While cold silver birds who came to cruise the skies [00:25.40]Send death down to bend and twist her tiny hands [00:32.92]And then proceed to target be in keeping with their plans [00:41.27]Khaki priests of Christendom interpreters of love [00:48.60]Ride a stone Leviathan across a sea of blood [00:56.04]And pound their feet into the sand [01:00.05]Of shores they've never seen [01:03.32] [01:03.90]Delegates from the western land to join the death machine [01:11.62]And we send cards and letters [01:19.34] [01:24.53]The oxen lie beside the road their bodies baked in mud [01:32.38]And fat flies chew out their eyes then bathe themselves in blood [01:40.70]And super heroes fill the skies tally sheets in hand [01:47.09] [01:47.65]Yes keeping score in times of war takes a superman [01:55.25] [01:55.95]The junk crawls past hidden death it's cargo shakes inside [02:03.03]And soldier children hold their breath [02:07.18]And kill them as they hide [02:10.96] [02:11.54]And those who took so long to learn [02:15.83]The subtle ways of death [02:19.18]Lie and bleed in paddy mud with questions on their breath [02:28.07]And we send prayers and praises