GUSTAV - Would You? Lyrics

Would you shoot an unknown person who is like you and me?
Would you invent a bomb to kill hundreds randomly?
Would you give the order of attack although you know
That ten thousand people will suffer from the blow?

The evils of war, they make my heart sore
Because they're not human anymore
Can you imagine what makes a person do all these things?
I do not feel the empathy to grasp any of this
What does a man feel when he commits such evil?
Does it hurt or does he feel some pleasure?
The threat of your own life, the will to survive
Does that justify any of these actions?

Would you force a mother to kill a child of her own blood?
Would you attack a person trying to save a comrade in the mud?
Would you help in systematic cleansing of minorities
Ending lives of innocent humans permanently?

The evils of war, they make my heart sore
Because they're not human anymore
Can you imagine what makes a person do all these things?
I do not feel the empathy to grasp any of this
What does a man feel when he commits such evil?
Does it hurt or does he feel some pleasure?
The threat of your own life, the will to survive
Does that justify any of these actions?

Would you smack a child against a tree until it dies?
Would you throw a bomb to wipe out hundreds of lives?
Would you cause excruciating pain just to prove
Someone's guilty of a crime he didn't do?

The evils of war, they make my heart sore
Because they're not human anymore
Can you imagine what makes a person do all these things?
I do not feel the empathy to grasp any of this
What does a man feel when he commits such evil?
Does it hurt or does he feel some pleasure?
The threat of your own life, the will to survive
Does that justify any of these actions?
What does a man feel when he commits such evil?
Does it hurt or does he feel some pleasure?
The threat of your own life, the will to survive
Does that justify any of these actions?