Nazareth - Back to the Trenches

Presidents and peace spreading poets Getting gunned down in the streets Shown to us on our prime time screens For our tea time treat Lunatics we voted for denying Everything that they swore We sit around and shout about it But we don't do nothing more Drafted for police action But they decided on a war Telling us we were saving mankind Why don't you ask Cambodia We were solving it with marijuana We were sure that we could Always leavin' it to someone else Just knocking on wood We're goin' back to the trenches We're goin' back to the trenches Well you say you got a say so But you're knowin' that it ain't so And you turn away You think it's safer to ignore it But the score is your children have to pay Everybody wants better Everybody talkin' 'bout it Are we wastin' time Gotta stop only lookin', talkin' We're all guilty of the crime We're goin' back to the trenches We're goin' back to the trenches We gotta move, we got everything to lose We gotta move, we got everything to lose We're all headed for the front line But everybody's fightin' for a good address It's time we made the changes Or we'll be burnin' with the rest We ain't communicatin' and I don't Mean conversations on the telephone When Nero starts to fiddle this time There's a lot more gonna burn than Rome We're goin' back to the trenches We're goin' back to the trenches We're goin' back to the trenches We're goin' back to the trenches