Intervention Lyrics - Threshold

I was driving through the fens in a peaceful English scene 

Paid for by my grandfather the original gunners dream 

I was taking life for granted though I was born to die 

It's been a long time since a bomb dropped from the expansive Norfolk sky 

I was listening to the radio and the talk was all of war 

Freed themselves from Tito settling old scores 

I was far from Sarejevo it seemed irrelevant to me 

If it was U.N. troops or diplomats that had to intervene 

We are impotent in our power do we dare to fight again 

Must we always kill for freedom what will intervention gain? 

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It's a symptom of repression and a people held at bay 

No freedom of expression waiting for this day 

If we impose our standards on a people newly freed 

We will be the opressors and the curse of war will breed on 

Don't let it breed on 

Don't let it breed on 

But her cries went right through me 

Gripped my heart till I thought that I would die 

That little child on the operating table 

I had to stop to wipe the tears from my eyes 

They had no drugs to comfort her to dull away the pain 

As they removed the bloody legacy a cruel shrapnel rain 

That had destroyed the lives of the ones she loved 

That would shake your faith in the Lord above 

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And the eyes of the world they are turning away 

She had no natural resources to protect her in her play 

And the backstreets of her home town 

they are burning down in flames 

She is part of a new crystal nacht an ethnic cleansing day 

We are ignorant we are partisan 

We are ignorant we are partisan