'Truth is the first casualty of war'

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Lead vocals: Jenna Glanville
Winner of Souls of the Service Songwriting Contest 2008
Recorded on Roland guitar synth.
Nylon string guitar with ambience from ERH (Eric) and other artists at free sound.

I waited for the news of the latest war dead
Missing in action from what I read
Forgotten, gone, destroyed in a blast
First out on the line, Truth had passed

Invention of a tyrant, bold and perverse
Authority as truth, rather than the reverse
So, where is the outrage? So hard to dismiss!
Cruel and unusual, but not like this!
Honor gone, silently grieving
Defying all logic, blindly believing,

My truth, my liberty, you will be missed
Cease and desist, then cease to exist
So, where is the outrage? So hard to dismiss!
Cruel and unusual, but not like this!
Dead to us, still, truth remains
Unseen to the mind with no visible chains

In the wicked web, half the truth lies
As we believe the absurd so we commit the disguise
Made it a desert , called it peace at last!
But there could be no release, for truth had passed

Better divided by truth than united in error
While making terrror on terror two wrongs in pair
If truth so precious, then why guarded by a lie
in the rattling of sabers and hysteric war cry

Violence conceals a lie and lie kept by the same
Rather thatn "peace be with you" a litany inflame
O peace! How many wars were waged in thy name?
Any excuse serves the unjust without shame

There is no way to peace
Peace is the way
When truth has passed away
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who pay
when truth has passed, truth has passed away

a demon at the helm his minion fool commanding
leaves an army of cripples with the thieves still standing
Reality distorted by the powerful elite
Truth replaced by silence, financial deceit

There is no way to peace
peace is the way
when truth has passed away
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who pay
when truth has passed, truth has passed away