Cannons Lyrics - Education, Education, Education & War - Kaiser Chiefs

Look alive 

Pick a side 

Draw a line in the sand 

You're just the band 

They treat us like we're extras in an epic 

They treat us like we're mud on their boots 

They leave us on the stretchers when the credits roll 

Retreating safely to institutes 

Where dinner party military forces 

Toast themselves with the blood of us all 

Smashing regimes between courses 

Chanting "education, education and war" 

We're gonna need a lot more cannons 

We're gonna need a lot more cannons 

If you wanna be home by Christmas 

If we're gonna be home by Christmas 

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I know ther is another way 

If you wanna see their face again 

I know they feel the same way over there 

They're making all the difficult decisions 

Politicians and children first 

Followed by their personal physicians who say 

You will be happy if you expect the worse 

Armed with paper straws and a bible 

Lamps are going out across department stores 

You will be issued with a rifle on arrival chaps 

For education, education and war 

We're gonna need a lot more cannons 

We're gonna need a lot more cannons 

If you wanna be home by Christmas 

If we're gonna be home by Christmas 

I know ther is another way 

If you wanna see their face again 

I know they feel the same way over there 

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I know ther is another way 

If you wanna see their face again 

I know they feel the same way over there 

Oh oh oh oh oh 

Show us the way to go 

Hell or Heaven help us 

Show us the way to go 

Save our souls 

Show us the way back home 

Save our souls 

Show us the way to go 

Quick time 

Get in Line 

Get Behind the man in front 

You're the grunts 

Look alive 

Pick a side 

Draw a line in the sand 

You're just the band 

We're gonna need a lot more cannons 

We're gonna need a lot more cannons 

If you wanna be home by Christmas 

If we're gonna be home by Christmas 

I know ther is another way 

If you wanna see their face again 

I know they feel the same way over there 

I know ther is another way 

If you wanna see their face again 

I know they feel the same way over there 

Hell of Heaven help us 

The Occupation 

The Occupation 

The occupation of Damnation Eternal 

Decreed by Commander in Chief 

Won by the infantry, led by the Colonel 

Came at costs that would beggar belief 

As they marched upon the inferno 

And the infidels dropped to their knees 

Millions of civilians crammed in pavilions 

Came to watch it on big screen TVs 

The population of Damnation Eternal 

Went from millions to thousands to one 

The survivor then wrote in his journal 

"Why on Earth did it take them so long?" 

Within weeks we constructed a pipeline 

Within years we'll have run the place dry 

It'll just about last us our lifetime 

So it's hip hip hoorays and high fives 

On the factory floor there's a whisper 

We built cannons before it began 

But the engines still pumping its piston 

And the turbine still whirring its fan 

The assembly line spits out the surplus 

Into purpose built lead lined white vans 

Rockets stockpile as ministry workers 

Fill their pockets with all that they can 

Secret meetings are held in the senate 

What to do with this excess supply 

There's a plan to abandon the planet 

One V.I.P at a time 

So we get up each day and have breakfast 

Read the news and the weather forecast 

As we sit and we open our letters 

And we pray that it won't be our last.