Oddly appropriate

The War Is Over from the album “Farewells & Fantasies (Disk 2)” by Phil Ochs.

Silent soldiers on a silver screen
Framed in fantasies and broken dreams
Unpaid actors of the mystery
The mad director knows that freedom will not make you free
And what's this got to do with me?

I declare the war is over
It's over
It's over

Drums are drizzling on a grain of sand
Fading rhythms of a fading land
Prove your courage in the proud parade
Trust your leaders where mistakes are almost never made
And they're afraid that I'm afraid

I'm afraid the war is over
It's over
It's over

Angry artists painting angry signs
Use their vision just to blind the blind
Poisoned players of a grizzly game
One is guilty and the other gets to point the blame
Pardon me if I refrain

I declare the war is over
It's over
It's over

So do your duty boys and join the crowd
Serve your country in her suicide
Find a flag so you can wave goodbye
But before the end even treason is worth a try
This country is too young to die.

I declare the war is over
It's over
It's over

One legged veterans will greet the dawn
And their whistling marches as they mow the lawn
And the gargoyles only sit and greet
The gypsy fortune teller told me we'd been decieved
You are only what you believe

I believe the war is over
It's over
It's over