After the Last War - Rustdawg73

After the Last War
After the last war they said never again with conviction,
they built an institution and they gave it jurisdiction,
over the disputes between the nations and the settling of accounts,
and they meant it at the signing and they meant it in the founts.

But the meaning faded with the generation that had fought,
and the children of the peace forgot the price of what was bought,
and twenty years and thirty years and forty years along,
after the last war the preparation for the next moved on.

After the last war, after the last war,
the treaties and the monuments and the medals and the more,
after the last war, we promised it would be,
the last war and we meant it with the full sincerity,
after the last war, the last war has not come,
every generation sends its sons beneath a different drum,
after the last war, after the last war,
we are still building the weapons for the war after the last war.

The veteran who survived the last one does not trust the phrase,
after the last war is a comfort for the comfortable days,
he says the only after is the one that you work for every year,
the political and civic and the economic sphere.

After the last war we owe the answer to the ones who went,
that the last war is the last war and we mean it with the intent,
to do the work of peace as hard as any soldier did the fight,
after the last war, we had better get that right.