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Weapon of Mass Destruction

from Out of the Fertile Crescent by Ballydowse

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We cradle in our arms your terror, the soldiers that you fight
Disguised as our children, they starve. Behold your enemy

Ringed around the village of the brazen infidel
As their eyes sink in, you can feel your muscles swell
Catapults throw hunger into bellies brave and small
While kings discuss the benefits in laden banquet halls

In Mosul in northern Iraq's no fly zone, we saw flocks of sheep
Which had been blasted to eternity with the small child shepherds
Who tended them. No other targets in sight

You cradle in your arms the terror that will bring the ceiling down
Crashing on your children, the harvest of this seed

In Mosul where Jonah rests the sheep are waging war
They dared to raise their eyes when the planes above them roared
On the sands of Babylon we lay down and wept
Morning light on you! Oh, vengeance we expect

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from Out of the Fertile Crescent, released July 1, 2000

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Ballydowse is a folk punk band that sang of social and economic injustice.

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