Everyone knows what everyone knows
You can’t change the world with a kiss and a rose
Sometimes a man has to stand up and fight
When others are wrong and he knows that he’s right
Everyone knows that the peace must be won
That change only comes at the point of a gun
Everyone knows, and it’s well understood
That “they” are all bad and “we” are all good
Everyone knows “they” are after our blood
That if we don’t fight them, they’ll come like a flood
They’ll burn us and kill us and blow us away
And basically do what we’re doing to “they”
Everyone knows we must go there and fight
We can torture and kill because “we” are all right
We can hit them and kick them and shoot them and then
The people left living will all be our friends
Everyone knows that the answer is war
We can do it again, we have done it before
But peace never comes, and the violence grows
I think someone should question what everyone knows
