The War Is Over-Phil Ochs

[ti:The War Is Over (Album Version)] [ar:Phil Ochs] [al:An Introduction To Phil Ochs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The War Is Over (Album Version) - Phil Ochs [00:04.31]Silent soldiers on a silver screen [00:09.49] [00:11.40]Framed in fantasies and dragged in dream [00:17.38] [00:18.61]Unpaid actors of the mystery [00:22.40] [00:25.59]The mad director knows that freedom will not make you free [00:31.07] [00:31.69]And what's this got to do with me [00:34.71] [00:36.34]I declare the war is over [00:40.88] [00:41.89]It's over it's over [00:46.73] [00:50.62]Drums are drizzling on a grain of sand [00:55.36] [00:57.73]Fading rhythms of a fading land [01:02.91] [01:04.89]Prove your courage in the proud parade [01:10.06] [01:11.97]Trust your leaders where mistakes are almost never made [01:17.72] [01:18.67]And they're afraid that I'm afraid [01:21.98] [01:22.91]I'm afraid the war is over [01:27.74] [01:29.04]It's over it's over [01:34.99] [01:37.34]Angry artists painting angry signs [01:41.90] [01:44.28]Use their vision just to blind the blind [01:49.52] [01:51.72]Poisoned players of a grizzly game [01:57.17] [01:58.70]One is guilty and the other gets the point to blame [02:03.86] [02:05.83]Pardon me if I refrain [02:07.81] [02:09.25]I declare the war is over [02:12.93] [02:15.18]It's over it's over [02:20.55] [02:29.44]So do your duty boys and join with pride [02:34.43] [02:37.09]Serve your country in her suicide [02:41.75] [02:44.31]Find the flags so you can wave goodbye [02:50.53] [02:51.71]But just before the end even treason might be worth a try [02:57.33] [02:57.96]This country is too young to die [03:01.16] [03:02.49]I declare the war is over [03:07.32] [03:08.27]It's over it's over [03:13.71] [03:16.48]One-legged veterans will greet the dawn [03:21.87] [03:22.93]And they're whistling marches as they mow the lawn [03:30.20] [03:31.48]And the gargoyles only sit and grieve [03:37.15] [03:38.38]The gypsy fortune teller told me that we'd been deceived [03:44.21] [03:45.09]You only are what you believe [03:48.11] [03:49.62]I believe the war is over [03:53.82] [03:55.33]It's over it's over