They are all blind men, jousting with shadows Not a damn thing is true Either about their enemy Or the things they think they are fighting for
A young Muslim points his RPG, with God's name on his lips And a young Marine takes him out, with Rock and Roll in his ears The young Muslim lies in a pool of blood And the young Marine gets pats on the back
Not one damn worthy thing has happened Not one important point was made Nothing of value was won And God had nothing to say about it
How really absurd it all is How absolutely ridiculous All this mess and all this noise And all this wasted effort
If only they knew how meaningless it is If only they knew how little God cares If only they could see what an irritation they are creating And how little the rest of nature cares for their empty squabbling
The selfish pettiness of their religions and politics, smears the sky with shit The low-down nature of their high-blown beliefs, soaks the ground with piss Their ego-inflated excuses, to tear each other to pieces, throw-up on the world And this unworthy monkey brings desecration to the earth and life it has been given
I stand mute, deaf, and blinded by the sites they offer me I wretch at the very thought of the reasons they give for their crimes I shake, uncontrollably, at the horror that they expect me to accept I weep, like Jesus, at the realization that they will not stop until all life ends
They are all blind men, jousting with shadows Not a damn thing is true Either about their enemy Or the things they think they are fighting for
Jim Bush is a 61 year old, Vietnam-era veteran, currently living in Katy,Texas. He was raised in a military family. His father received the Silver Star for directing troops while under air attack at Clark Field in the Phillipines, survived the Bataan Death March, and spent three and a half years in a Japanese POW camp. He also received the Purple Heart for wounds received while a POW. Jim served as an army photographer in Okinawa and Korea. In 1987 he traveled to the war zones of Nicaragua with a veteran's group dedicated to stopping the Contra War.
