Blood Moon (by Danny Coleman)

There's a blood moon in the sky tonight

And no one knows why we have to fight, tonight

Who puts a school for girls next to an army barracks?

Who drops a bomb on it anyway?

Why do they all seem to care less

About the children, than about their power plays?

There's rich and powerful men

Coercing sex from teenage girls

While their rich and powerful friends

Try to hide it from the world

There's crypto scams and corporate plans

That make them even richer

The details we don't understand

But we get the general picture

There's a blood moon in the sky tonight

And I don't know if we can make this right

The reasons given don't make sense

The justifications are insincere

For all this needless violence

All this pain, all this sorrow, all this fear

Is it a distraction?

Is it quid pro quo?

Is there a profit motive?

Or is it just for show?

The price is paid by the sons and daughters

And the parents who hoped their kids would have more

They all get screwed or become cannon fodder

By rich and powerful men who are rotten to the core

There's a blood moon in the sky tonight

And we're at war, once more, tonight

And we don't know what for.