the lucky ones jon sirkis figured i'd write about my trip tonight i'm in a village not far from where the fighting's been everyone i've met's been really friendly but there's something in the air and the people are scared and the place is dead silent when a plane flies overhead somebody said the fighting's getting closer the army came to the village down the way it was pretty bad this time they burned everything that must've been the shots we heard last night when they came through here - now it's only been a year - they just stole some food and took a couple men away compared to what i've heard they got off easy but one girl then became one of the lucky ones now when the shooting starts she never seems to hear 'cause the night the soldiers came is blocked out of her memory for her it's just like nothing ever happens gotta break the truth out of the silence, gotta fill the darkness up with light so tell me how does sowing seeds of hatred help defend our way of life do you wanna do something about it or would you rather never have to know is there any spark left in your conscience or have you become one of them - have you become one of them have you become one of the lucky ones? the gunships came around down today and they shot at our backs as we tried to run away most of us made it across the river there was nothing left to burn by the time we returned but 23 people didn't make it out of there the soldiers hung their bodies from the village square but the lucky ones never have to think of that or wonder when the next time's gonna be or be a soldier with a conscience who must live his life with the part he played in what just happened gotta break the truth out of the silence, gotta fill the darkness up with light so tell me how does sowing seeds of hatred help defend our way of life do you wanna do something about it or would you rather never have to know is there any spark left in your conscience or have you become one of them - have you become one of them have you become one of the lucky ones? been a slow day on the news they say, not a word of the war the country or the villagers even though our taxes buy the bullets it ain't like they lied about the people who died i guess they figured it just wasn't worth mentioning cause that kinda stuff goes on there all the time so i guess it's really we who are the lucky ones when the shooting starts we never need to hear or see the end results that our money buys for us it's just like nothing ever happens you don't need the talk of truth and justice to realize that something's just not right so tell me how does sowing seeds of hatred help defend our way of life do you wanna do something about it or would you rather never have to know is there any spark left in your conscience or have you become one of them - have you become one of them have you become one of the lucky ones? a few years ago jon decided he could never make a living as a musician (gee, i wonder why he never got airplay) and is now in law school. you can still find his cds, Songs For Kelly and The Wild West online if you'd like to buy them.