Lyrics Billy Bragg

Billy Bragg

Think Again

Do you think that the Russians want war?

These are the parents of children who died in the last one

Do you think that it's possible knowing their past

That they'd ever considered repeating the past

When twenty million were slaughtered by NAZI invasion

They died fighting on our side you know

In a fight to defend human kind against NAZI terror and hatred

In the name of humanity bitter and torn

In the name of our children as yet to be born

Before we do that which can never be undone

I beg of you

Think, think again

And again and again and again and again

Do you think that the Russians want war?

These are the sons and the daughters of parents who died in the last one

Do you think that they want to go through that again?

The destruction, the bloodshed, the suffering and pain

In the second world war, out of every three dead, one was Russian

If we try with all of our power

Can we not find a way to peacefully settle our difference

In the name of humanity bitter and torn

In the name of our children as yet to be born

Before we do that which can never be undone

I beg of you

Think, think again

And again and again and again and again

Do you think that the Russians want war?

Will the voice of insanity lead you to total destruction?

Will you stumble to death as though you were blind?

Will you cause the destruction of all human kind?

Will you die because you don't like their political system?

There will be no survivors you know

No one left to scream in the night and condemn our stupidity

In the name of humanity bitter and torn

In the name of our children as yet to be born

Before we do that which can never be undone

I beg of you

Think, think again

And again and again and again and again