Politicians always play their tricks
And their fingers are thicker
Than a cigarette mixed with a beard
And a beard mixed
With [?] in your ear
Saying
"I haven't been here"



On the eve of loss
That's when I heard someone say
"There are so many wars today
This is not just a mask"
"No
This is not war
Darling"
"And this is not just a casket"
"No
This is not war
Darling"
"No
This is not war"


October 7th
2023
I was too young to see
That this is not an act
And this is not just a pact
And this is not simply a black


And this is not simply a whitefall
(Mysteriously outed)
And this is not just a battle
(Mystical late witness)
And this is not simply a crisis
(No longest sleeping song)
And this is not simply a wound
And this is not simply a victim
("You've have y'self a war there, buddy")


And this is not simply a period
And this is not simply a sin
(At last, they reappear)
And this is not simply a warning
For this is not war
No
For this is not war
No
For this is not war
Darling


For this is not just a mask
And this is not war
Darling
And this is not just a casket
And this is not war
Darling
Shadows of a mask
Are not just for the children
Generals in white
They are off to their white wars


A story too cold to leave untold
Of a home I never had
But a grandmother held by the hand
So desperate to trade sand
Circles widening by command
Along the surface of the plan