So they've stopped making speeches and they've started making war There are plastic pocket calculators tallying the score And a multitude of gentle hearts are wildly skipping beats And is this why we all went marching in the streets The uniforms go marching by in jets of screaming pain As they rise into the rockets holding poisons dressed as rain And a million brazen buglers can no longer sound retreat And is this why we all went marching in the streets Now they've found a way to kill the men and let the buildings stand And they've blindly put the switches into aging madmens' hands Ones who dream of war and glory and a thousand mighty feats And is this why we all went marching in the streets Now the children are demanding if we've sold our souls or worse As we tear their world to splinters for the profits of our purse As they turn their backs on us the question once again repeats Is this why we all went marching in the streets So you think no more of marching all the protesters are gone And you've paid the price once asked of you and now the debt is done Well believe it if you will but if you don't get off your seats They'll soon have us all out marching in the streets We are raising up our voices for the cause of peace again They're preparing us for war now but they will not tell us when We must stop them here and now before the final armies meet Or there'll be no one left for marching in the streets And is this why we all went marching in the streets?