I've known no war
  And if I ever do I won't know for sure
  Who'll be fighting whom
  For the soldiers lonely tomb
  Now opens as soon as the referee's gun starts to roar
  I'll know no war
    Galbraith took his pen
  To break down the men
  Of the German army defeated
  On the nineteenth day
  Of a spring day in May
  Albert Speer was deleted
  And as soon as the battle was over
  I was born in victorious clover
  And I've never been shot at or gassed
  Never tortured or stabbed
  And I'm sure - I'll never know war
    I know I'll never know war
  And if I ever do
  The glimpse will be short
  Fireball in the sky
  No front line battle cries
  Can be heard and the button is pushed
  By a soul that's been bought
  I'll know no war
    In and out of reach loft
  The medals are lost
  They belong to a lone broken sailor
  His provinces now
  Are the bars of the town
  His songs and his poems of failure
  For his grandchildren can't see the glory
  And his own kids are bored with the story
  But for him they'd have burned behind netting
  >From the brink they were grabbed
  And I'm sure
  I'll never know war
    I've known no war
  And if I ever do I won't know for sure
  Who'll be fighting whom
  For the soldiers lonely tomb
  Now opens as soon as the referee's gun starts to roar
  I'll know no war
    War - I've known no war
  I'll never know war
  And if I ever know it
  The glimpse will be short
  Fireball in the sky
  No front line battle cries
  Can be heard as the button is pushed by a soul that's been bought
  And the armies remaining will judge without people or courts
  And there's no point pretending that knowing will help us abort
  I'll know no war