No Time For Love

Its played in 6/8 time I think; and feel free to change it, if you want to! ( They call it the law, apartheid, internment, conscription, partition and silence It's a law that they made to keep you and me, where they think we belong They hide behind steel and bulletproof glass, Machine guns and spies And you tell us who'll suffer the tear gas and torture that we're doing wrong No time for love if they come in the morning No time to show tears over fears in the morning No time for goodbyes, no time to ask why And the sound of the siren the cry of the mourning They came for Sacko, Vanzetti, Connolly and Pearce in their time They came for Newton and Seal, Bobby Sands and some of his friends In Boston, Chicago, Saigon, San Diego, Warsaw and Belfast And places that never make headlines the list never ends The boys in blue are only a few of the everyday cops on their beat The CID branchmen informers and spies do their job just as well And behind them the men who tap phones and load down computers and files And the man that tells them when to come to take you to your cell Ref. So come on you people who give your brothers and sisters the will to live on They say you can get used to this war but that doesn't mean that this war isn't on The fish need the sea to survive just like your comrades need you And the death squads can only get through to them if first they can get through to you Ref. 2x