Dear John

Dear John… Why do we still go to war? Why do the young still bleed For the greed of older men? Why do we stand in lines Waiting to fall like names We never chose to be? Were you asking this back then? Did it ever make sense to you? Where you are now… Is it quiet at last? Did you find some kind of peace We still don’t understand? Because down here It still feels like hell Children fall again today Under bullets, under stone Nothing’s really changed at all We’re still dying on our own Since you’ve been gone Nothing’s moved ahead We’re still stuck in the same old fire With different names instead We still try to imagine The world you used to say But it feels so far away now Like it never found its way Another life just fades away Somewhere as I sing And I’m angry… But I can’t do anything Children fall again today Nothing’s really changed We’re still calling out for something That never came So I’m calling you… Dear John… Dear John… Please… Let it end