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Love your Neighbor


How could something start so pure

the epic fairytale

Turn into such madness

A crusade through holy hell

 

I wouldn't call it funny

not comical quite yet

I'd say it leans towards crazy

Sinful, yes, I bet

 

Your morals, rest assured

are lined at heaven's gate

along with all your bombs and guns

your submarines and tanks

 

At least they others have it right

teaching unmolested truth

of why the others have it wrong

of why they never do

 

Either side wages war

'til either God knows when

Both sides never failto count

the hell-bound player's sins

 

I'll pray for you while burning

your wrongful peoples' book

and hope that my God turns his head

and just forgets to look

 

Nannee nanee boo boo

I don't like the way you think

So I'll crash my plane into your work

and blow up all my things

 

I is for the idiots

that play on either side

The ones who don't know anything

becasue they'll never try

 

R is for the right

which we all think that we are

But you don't know what you don't know

and so from that we're far

 

O is for the sound we make

when we learn something new

Something we might have strived to learn

before we speak the "truth"

 

N is for never

which we're never s'posed to say

but N is also for neglect

because we say it anyway

 

Y is for the dreamers

Lennon, here's to you

For those who ask what we're not taught

what is really truth?

 

At least we know that God approves

his smile lights the world

and reflects the light of hand grenades

and other weapons hurled

 

Love your neighbor

and do unto others as you would

so long as they live and pray

in your same neighborhood 

 

 

 

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