Melt The Guns lyrics

Song information

Artist: Xtc
Album: English Settlement

Lyrics

(Andy partridge)

Programmes of violence
As entertainment
Brings the disease into your room
We know the germ
Which is man-made in metal
Is really a key to your own tomb

Prevention is better than cure
Bad apples affecting the pure
You'll gather your senses I'm sure
Then agree to

Melt the guns
Melt the guns
Melt the guns
And never more to fire them

Melt the guns
Melt the guns
Melt the guns
And never more desire them

Children will want them
Mothers supply them
As long as your killers are heroes
And all the media
Will fiddle while rome burns
Acting like modern-time neros

Prevention is better than cure
Bad apples affecting the pure
You'll gather your senses I'm sure
Then agree to

Melt the guns
Melt the guns
Melt the guns
And never more to fire them

Melt the guns
Melt the guns
Melt the guns
And never more desire them

I'm speaking to the justice league of america
The u s of a
Hey you
Yes you in particular!
When it comes to the judgement day and you're standing at the gates with your weaponry
You dead go down on one knee
Clasp your hands in prayer and start quoting me
'Cos we say..
Our father we've managed to contain the epidemic in one place, now
Let's hope they shoot themselves instead of others
Help to civilize the race now
We've trapped the cause of the plague
In the land of the free and the home of the brave
If we listen quietly we can hear them shooting from grave to grave
You ought to

Melt the guns
Melt the guns
Melt the guns
And never more to fire them

Melt the guns
Melt the guns
Melt the guns
And never more desire them