<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">We Are Going To War</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">We are going to war</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The motion of the blood vessels expand</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Contract, the breath becomes shallow</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">nerves excite their light</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The synapses fire and fire like antiaircraft ordinance</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">A terrifying necklace glitters in the eye the mind the night</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">We are going to war</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">There are people we hate and hate us in turn</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Though they will have started this</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Its their way of life, its all that they do, its all that they are</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The arguments are fusing into bombs</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">That will tear the flesh from children's bones</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">We will have reasons we will have so many reasons</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">We are going to war</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Our teeth will taste the strength an animal tastes</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">In tearing flesh, as sweet as justice </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">And we will fall into the pleasure of it.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Your neighbors will surrender to this war</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">In the supermarket, in the swimming pool, in the school</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">They will change from small talk</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">to demanding blood</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">You will see things you are not prepared to see</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Your laws will be defiled, your beliefs will show you what they are</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">We are going to war</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The years of peace are slipping from our hands</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">And we watch them as passive as the man</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Who knows, the ocean rip is stronger than the land</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">It pulls him out - he does not resist</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">He floats on his back, looks into the sky </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">and lets it take him like fair prey. </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">We are drifting to war</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">- Alex Wisser</span></div></body></html>