I will not lie down   On the wrongful ground or play   While it's still a radical sound   Just to call a spade a spade   Dear friends, women and men   Please check my math once more   In the totality of all war's history   There's but one common denominator   The answer is in the intention   That lies behind the question   Put that on your standardized multiple choice   I mean, how's this supposed to look to me   But half of divinity   Out there trying to make harmony   With only one voice      You know I've got experience   Looking right past the obvious   So I know what is so big and so close   Is always the hardest stuff   For us to reckon with   The hardest stuff to know      Dear friends, especially the women,   Tell me are you up to the task?   Of turning the wheel on human history   At long last      The answer is in the intention   That lies behind the question   Put that on your standardized multiple choice   I mean, how's this supposed to look to me   But half of divinity   Out there trying to make harmony   With only one voice      I will not lie down   On the wrongful ground or play   While it's still a radical sound   Just call a spade a spade      Dear friends, women and men   What better time to face   That we've been looking for   The answer to war   In the wrong place