i wish (but it's all in vain)

i wish (i wish i wish i wish)

i wish (i wish i wish)

but it's all in vain (it's all it's all in vain in vain)

~Chumbawamba

Morning by Edvard Munch

i wish i could see troy davis

sitting at the right hand of the father

encompassed in a hallowed light

while angels at his shoulders

sing the hallelujah chorus

and all the little beasts of burden

throng at his sandaled feet

i wish i could see jews and arabs from

all the great lands of the middle east

hand each other olive branches

and call each other auntie cousin niece

as tears stream down their cheeks
in a moment of great reconciliation
with acts of heroic forgiveness

i wish (in vain perhaps)
that western powers would donate
one meal a day from each of its citizens
and that such a simple act would lessen
the body fat of overweight americans
and end the hunger pangs of
continental africa and everyone else

i wish someone would tell us

what those planes crisscrossing
the blue skies are spraying and why
i wish i could stop thinking about it
and watch the old cloud forms roll by
as sweet winds cool the summer heat
and rains fall down to cleanse the earth

i wish they would discover
the cause of my disease
and i could experience a day again
without this pain and misery
may no one else live 15 years 
with perpetual pain and zero care
and the disbelief of ignorant doctors

i wish we would destroy
every weapon in our arsenals
all the guns of china and russia
pakistan israel columbia
india libya united states france
every weapon yes the end of wmd
talk to everyone and live in peace

this fragile peace does not exist

not peace but cold wars
cold wars turned to hot wars
violated women innocent children
begging dinars at car doors
and at the end of the fumes
an iraqi sunset and the bitter dregs of war

i wish i wish i wish
but it's all in vain but it's all in vain
i wish i wish i wish
but it's all but it's all but it's all
in vain in vain ...

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