How You Survived the War

You never change your mind once it's made up
 Unless it's to crawl back on your knees

 Is that the way you want it?
 You get back to the wall
 And put your hands up
 It's a holdup
 You give up like every time before
 That is how you survived the war

 You never multiply, all these divisions
 You give yourself the least of parts
 I put on my green felt hat, pack our privisions
 Playing a merry Prince of Thieves

 Is that the way you want it?
 You get back to the wall
 And put your hands up
 It's a holdup
 You give up like every time before
 That is how you survived the war

 You're not gonna lose this one
 You don't have to cut and run
 I think you can choose to love and what is more
 That is how you survived the war

 Now in a summer's day, spring a ripened plum
 How will you live under the sun?
 You follow the open road, remembering the guns
 When you get lost under the trees

 Is that the way you want it?
 You get back to the wall
 And put your hands up
 It's a holdup
 You give up like every time before
 That is how you survived the war
 That is how you survived the war

 You never change your mind once it's made up