I Know

You'd lay your life down for this country

Lay it down for fools like me

I know, I know, I know you would

You'd make the ultimate sacrifice

Lose yourself on a throw of the dice

I know, I know, I know you would

Cos the line you come from stretches back

In an unbroken chain other countries lack

Every single corner of the world

Has seen our banners being unfurled

You've won and lost and battled on

Whether the cause was right or wrong

God knows what you do to the enemy

Cos you scare the living hell out of me

He'd lay his life down for his country

He'd like to kill fools like me

I know, I know, I know he would

He'd make the ultimate sacrifice

Blow himself to paradise

I know, I know, I know he would

And the line he comes from stretches back

In an unbroken chain other countries lack

In the farthest corners of the world

Where he's watched our banners being unfurled

He's won and lost and battled on

Whether his cause was right or wrong

He's this generation's enemy

And he scares the living hell out of me

No more war? It's not gonna happen

Not while there's men

willing to fight in them

No more war? It's not gonna happen

Not while there's patriotism,

Not while there's patriotism,

No more war? It's not gonna happen

Not while there's some saying

That this is the last one,

No more war? It's not gonna happen

Not while religious nuts

Are willing to spill their guts

And the line we come from stretches back

In an unbroken chain no country lacks

To the darkest corner of a cave

Where there's a weapon made to stave

Or gouge or choke or cut and kill

In a hundred years we'll be fighting still

I know, I know, I know,

I know we will.