Jim's Note: My first song for 2003 started in January. I was indulging in one of my favourite pastimes - browsing through bookshops - when I saw on the shelves of one shop, a series of books about the Second World War. Several of the books dealt with the Holocaust, and I was reminded of images of Nazi's burning piles of proscribed books in the streets of German cities. Within minutes I began writing the first line of the song which originally read, "You burn the books at midnight..." I later changed this word to "truth" and used the forthcoming war on Iraq as the theme for the song.

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No Blood For Oil
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You burn the truth at midnight; The flames light up the sky.
You stand around and warm your hands, and watch our freedoms die.
You start your wars for Mammon; For capital and greed;
Start your wars for land and oil, and watch our children bleed…

CHORUS
No blood for oil! No oil for your ‘freedom’,
Your freedom is worthless; When you pay with our lives.
No blood for oil! No oil for your ‘freedom’,
Your freedom is worthless; When you pay with our lives.

You shackle us with terror; blind us all with fear.
And all the while you tear away at all that we hold dear.
Turn neighbour against neighbour; breed hate beneath the sun.
Smash our doors; start your wars, with a bible and a gun…

CHORUS

BRIDGE
And all around the world, 
The calls for peace crash in like waves,
But you ignore our very cries, 
And send us to our graves…

INSTRUMENTAL BREAK

CHORUS
No blood for oil! No oil for your ‘freedom’,
Your freedom is worthless; When you pay with our lives.
No blood for oil! No oil for your ‘freedom’,
Your freedom is worthless; When you pay with our lives.

Repeat CHORUS as required

CODA: No blood for oil!



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