Combat Economics
Politicians profit while we’re dying in the trenches
arms manufacturers counting money on their benches
stock prices climbing with each body that we drop
war machine keeps grinding, never gonna stop
feeding on the bloodshed, sustained by our sacrifice
corporate bottom lines demand this endless price
paid in flesh and sanity, young men discarded
after service rendered, broken and bombarded
War is business, death the commodity
soldiers just expenses in their economy
fighting for the profit margins we’ll never see
dying to enrich those who sent us overseas
Blood turns to dollars in their ledgers neat
war perpetuates itself, cycle complete
Came home missing legs, government denies
my disability claim, bureaucratic lies
while defense contractors got their billions paid
for weapons that I carried, killing raids
I executed following orders given down
from men who never set foot in that town
we leveled, never saw the children burning
just quarterly earnings, tables turning
War is business, death the commodity
soldiers just expenses in their economy
fighting for the profit margins we’ll never see
dying to enrich those who sent us overseas
Blood turns to dollars in their ledgers neat
war perpetuates itself, cycle complete
Buddy bled out next to me, nineteen years old
drafted into conflict over resources sold
to highest bidder, territory claimed
for corporate interests, we got blamed
for atrocities committed under flag
while shareholders stuff money in the bag
watching war on television, sanitized
our suffering commodified, advertised
War is business, death the commodity
soldiers just expenses in their economy
fighting for the profit margins we’ll never see
dying to enrich those who sent us overseas
Blood turns to dollars in their ledgers neat
war perpetuates itself, cycle complete
Peace don’t pay dividends, war stocks soar
keeping conflict permanent, demanding more