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Kill For Peace

by Aaron Hale

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A soldier opens a bedroom door on an Iraqi family.
Crimson hatred shines in silver moon light.
He hallucinates his own family.
The shrapnel coming out of their brains,
but all he can hear his Staff Sergeants refrain:

You've gotta kill baby, kill for peace.

A pregnant Afghani woman goes out to the market,
but the good ol' boys in the red white and blue,
are putting up a blockade and not letting her get through
She tries to explain we haven't eaten for days,
but of course those boys don't understand a word she says.
Her husband comes to see what's going on.
A young nervous soldier guns him down.
While his wife is screaming floppping on the ground,
the soldiers show her how a NATO abortion goes down.

Cause you've gotta kill baby, kill for peace.

A soldier comes home from fighting overseas
to a wife and newborn baby he's never even seen.
All night long the nightmares fill his head.
He lays awake and sweats most nights in his bed.
He called his wife on her cell phone,"Honey come quick you've gotta come home."
Opens up the bedroom door
Shotgun butt is on the floor
Got the barrel to his forehead
Before he tripped those triggers
this is what he said:

You've gotta kill baby, kill for peace.

Jesus Christ said, "If someone strikes your face you should turn the other cheek, and then then you too can kill for peace.
Jesus Christ said, "You should hate thy enemies! HATE THY ENEMIES! so much that you would kill for peace."
Jesus Christ said, "You should forgive, and forgive, and forgive: endlessly! In the end you too can kill for peace!"

Over 900,000 dead: kill for peace.
The highest suicide rate of our own soldiers in any war: killed for peace.

You've gotta kill baby kill for peace.
In the middle east: kill for peace.

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released January 6, 2012

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Aaron Hale Stillwater, Oklahoma

Aaron Hale is an upcoming musician currently recording his debut album "Wildflowers/Atom Bombs" with Matt Duckworth (drummer: The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and the White Dwarf) at Bell Labs in Norman, OK released spring 2017. Aaron is a multi-instrumentalist and classically trained singer/pianist w a degree in music from Oklahoma State University.
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