A DIFFERENT KIND OF WAR David Wilcox copyright © 2001 A new Monologue by David There was a long haired guy who drew a crowd outside He got them all angry over national pride He was talking of the war that's on our shore And how we've never had to fight so hard before It's a war to fight and a war to win he said But how do we strike and where to begin? We want to kill those guilty of the crimes they've made But they don't live in one city; there's no fortress to invade This war is psychological and it starts right here So in my defiance, I will not live in fear Because fear is their weapon so I won't give in to that They know that fear turns to rage, and thats just their trap The way they win is to make us strike back They want us to launch a dreadful counterattack The more people that die at the hand of our nation The more hate it will breed in the next generation In this kind of war, they're not after our land They want their children's blood on our vengeful hands They want to make us act like an angry mob So we look like a bully that hates their god Their plan is to hurt us with our own brute force Like a herd stampeding down a deadly course If they can get us running with a rage like this They can lead the free world off the edge of a cliff And the cliff is to fall for the trap they've sprung To make us play the role of the vengeful one They want us to chase them and hunt them down To kill their people and burn their towns The few guilty people are happy to die If they can make us kill a few thousand more besides Because the death of the innocents just fuels the flame Until the next war starts and its all the same And the future unfolds for a hundred years As the terror grows and it breeds more fear So who will decide the future of our nation? Will we follow along with their invitation? The invitation is to trust our hate To let revenge define our fate To never see that it's a different war And we can't fight the same way we fought before We're not hunted by a tiger, or a lion or a shark, its more Like FIRE that's the danger and the enemy's a spark But the trickiest spin that the devil could twist Was convincing the world that he didn't exist If you don't believe in evil, then they're just dangerous men And you'll fight fire with fire, and you'll be just like them An eye for an eye, time after time Eye after eye until the whole world is blind If our enemy is evil, like a virus of the mind And its moving through the body of all humankind Then the evil brilliance of this virus which is hate Is that our natural reaction makes it replicate We want to shoot at a target thats easy to find But the enemy is in us - all humankind We want to kill the invader like we could in the past But you can't kill a virus with a shotgun blast This is not a nation that we're up against If it's good against evil what's our best defense? The man on the street was drawing a crowd Some people got angry and voices got loud The crowd answered back to the sidewalk guy That we must have revenge for the people that died But the man kept talking about love and light As if that were any way to fight the fight And a scuffle started and they hauled him in He was convicted of crimes and convicted of sins And for national safety and religious pride That sidewalk preacher was crucified