Anthem For Doomed Youth

Here's a story about the rules of death and glory
 To be learned by heart by all children of men
 It's the hour of the morning on the day after the dawning
 When the sun they said would never set finally set again
 Was it Cromwell or Orwell who first led you to the stairwell
 Which leads only forever to kingdom come
 Rushed alone by guiding hands
 whispers of the promise land
 They wished you luck and handed you a gun
 
 Life could be so handsome
 Life could be so gay
 We're going nowhere
 But nowhere, nowhere's on our way
 In the pub that night
 Racking out the lines of shite
 Putting to right
 All of the world's great wrongs
 Yes we thought that they were brothers
 Then they half-murdered each other
 Then they did a karaoke turn
 And murdered our best song
 Told the governor's wife
 About the last night of his life
 She turned away in tears
 Called you a liar
 Where are all the old dreams now?
 The batallion, once so proud
 Lost in some old song and hanging on the old barbedwire
 Life could be so handsome
 It's so good to be okay
 We're going nowhere
 But nowhere, nowhere's on our way
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 Nowhere in the institutions
 Did they teach that revolution
 Was something that could ever come to pass
 Oh we tried one, once before
 Was the king's head on the floor
 And we got booted out the boozer
 Cause someone smashed the glass
 Life could be so handsome
 Life could be okay
 We're going nowhere
 But nowhere, nowhere's on our way
 Life could be so handsome
 It's all gonna be okay
 We're going nowhere
 Cause nowhere, nowhere's on our way
 Nowhere's on our way