Romesh Senewiratne-Alagaratnam - Danger Games
A protest song against militarism that I wrote back in 1987. Recorded in Brisbane in 2011 when they let me leave the locked ward at PA hospital despite my maintaining that my father was involved with the Tamil Tigers, which had been "diagnosed" as "delusional" by the Tamil doctor from Chennai in South India who had been appointed to "treat" me.
Danger Games
Copyright 1987 by Romesh Senewiratne-Alagaratnam
Do they aim to deceive?
Do they aim to control?
Well, they aimed their guns at me
Then they walk in parade
And they claim to be strong
With destroyers in the sea
Every year is like the other
Little nations running scared
With bombs aimed at their heads
How can we walk secure
When danger men play danger games
With danger toys we dread?
They take another bath in the golden light
That the holy men proclaim
As they hold out their hands for their holy right
But won't let you do the same
Every year is like the other
Little nations running scared
With hungry days ahead
How can we walk secure when
Danger men play danger games
With danger toys we dread?
We say "we've got our pride"
They say, "well God on Our side"
I say, "well that won't do"
We say, "how many more will die
To stem the tide?
You've go to tell me now."
So we push and we pull
And we'll rise again
We won't let them hold us down
And we laugh at the threats
And we stand our ground
As we face another round
Every tyrant like another
Every land is any land
With danger days ahead.
How can we walk secure
When danger men play danger games
With danger toys we dread?