Name: War is just a Fad
Duration: 3 min 34 s
Channel: C. E. Chaffin
Description: "War is just a Fad" is a song by Dr. CE. A lament for the Iraq war and war in general.

War is just a Fad

Dr. CE

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A lament for the Iraq war and war in general.

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Dr. CE

Acoustic rock and folk rock with country, blues, and American Songbook influences.

Formerly "Dr. C and the Stratocats," I'm now on a solo career as "Dr. C," but I had to change my stage name here because someone else had already claimed it. My music strives for melody above all else; I strive to make my songs memorable, so you can whistle a tune immediately. I see melody as the element most lacking in contemporaryr music. I love Sinatra and the Beatles, Gordon Lightfoot, Paul Simon, anyone who can write a memorable "tune."

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Rock

Charts

Peak #737

Peak in subgenre #107

Author

C. E. Chaffin

Rights

2010

Uploaded

March 20, 2009

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.3 MB • 128 kbps • 3:34

Story behind the song

I was strumming a minor chord one day and listening to Brahams when this slighly symphonic tune took over my mind and fingers.  It was painful to write, and to all veterans, certainly, painful to hear.

Lyrics

War Is just a Fad

Come here you casualties of war
I'll sing an old, old song
Of heroes and of cowardice
Of rifles, cannons, bombs
You were out trudging in deserts whose skies
Were filled with vagabond stars
Riding in tanks with your dust-crusted eyes
And longing for neighborhood bars
The country once empowered you
With crystal motive and purview
But now we've all deserted you
For war is just a fad

Our president, belligerent
Because our towers fell
Went fatefully into Iraq
And logic went to hell
Shiites and Sunnis and Christians and Kurds
Discovered their hatreds of old
Each one believing their motives were pure
And ready to die for their code 
The country once empowered you
With crystal motive and purview
But now we've all deserted you
For war is just a fad

Congratulations aren't in store
When war's unpopular
But resolutely you endure
Sworn to defend our shores
Yet where are our shores in a desert 
Where civilization experienced birth?
Nowhere in sight, just the blistering haze
Of the scorched and intransigent earth
The country once empowered you
With crystal motive and purview
But now we've all deserted you
For war is just a fad

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