How You Survived the War

You never change your mind once it's made up

Unless it's to crawl back on your knees

Is that the way you want it?

You get back to the wall

And put your hands up

It's a holdup

You give up like every time before

That is how you survived the war

You never multiply, all these divisions

You give yourself the least of parts

I put on my green felt hat, pack our privisions

Playing a merry Prince of Thieves

Is that the way you want it?

You get back to the wall

And put your hands up

It's a holdup

You give up like every time before

That is how you survived the war

You're not gonna lose this one

You don't have to cut and run

I think you can choose to love and what is more

That is how you survived the war

Now in a summer's day, spring a ripened plum

How will you live under the sun?

You follow the open road, remembering the guns

When you get lost under the trees

Is that the way you want it?

You get back to the wall

And put your hands up

It's a holdup

You give up like every time before

That is how you survived the war

That is how you survived the war

You never change your mind once it's made up