Gun Pedlar
Verse 1
Oh the sun comes up through burning skies
The wind blows hard through deaths fires
The children cry and no one hears
Their faces blank and masked by tears
The warlords come their trucks to fill
The village blood they need to spill
Chorus
There’s no shame in what I do
Says the gun pedlar
Its not me who pulls the trigger
There’s no shame in what I do
Says the gun pedlar
Its not me who kills the children
Verse 2
The men and boys are stolen away
Guns in their hands they join the fray
The village girls are taken too
Someone else’s bidding they must do
The mothers weep but no one hears
Their mouths sewn by their own fears
Chorus
There’s no shame in what I do
Says the gun pedlar
Its not me who pulls the trigger
There’s no shame in what I do
Says the gun pedlar
Its not me who kills the children
Verse 3
Faceless people sit in safe surrounds
Getting fat from their bloody rounds
These sick worshipers of steel and lead
Line their pockets with the profits of death
Their fingers point anywhere but in
Their faces marked with a smug grin
Chorus
There’s no shame in what I do
Says the gun pedlar
Its not me who pulls the trigger
There’s no shame in what I do
Says the gun pedlar
Its not me who kills the children
Verse 4
Society is driven by the need to spend
The rich mans greed sees no end
But in purveying death one man’s gain
Leads directly to another ones pain
While governments sit in their places of power
The guns still flow from the ivory towers
Chorus
There’s no shame in what I do
Says the gun pedlar
Its not me who pulls the trigger
There’s no shame in what I do
Says the gun pedlar
Its not me who kills the children