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What use has the peace for the millions of the dead?

(For) the millions of the living, stray in the ruins

(If you) don't have a place to lay down your head

(If you) don't have a place to bury your children

What is the use of the victory you claim

When your childen are maimed

The skin is scorched on their livid faces

You keep them away from sight

"If any questions why we died

Tell them, because our fathers lied!"

What use has the peace for the millions of the dead?

(For) the millions of the living, stray in the ruins

(If you) don't have a place to lay down your head

(If you) don't have a place to bury your children

Some die shouting by gas or fire

Some die silent, by shell and shot.

Some die desperate, caught on the wire;

Some die suddenly. This will not.

"If any questions why we died

Tell them, because our fathers lied!"

What use has the peace for the millions of the dead?

(For) the millions of the living, stray in the ruins

(If you) don't have a place to lay down your head

(If you) don't have a place to bury your children

What use has the peace for the millions of the dead?

(If you) don't have a place to bury your children?

Based on "A Death-Bed" by Rudyard Kipling