Little Caesar

This war's a big one, the best one you've had
You've never wanted something so bad
Like that set of toy soldiers you begged for from dad
He liked guns, he considered it
Figured you'd get rid of it one day
You got lucky when you were like five
In your head, your little soldiers did fight for their lives
How you'd rip off their arms and you'd set them alight
In your head they were in on it
Little fucking idiots
Your little gladiators
You little Caesar
Your men wouldn't stop fighting
So you didn't either
Now this war's a small one
You wail as a preacher
To a vacuum of innocents
Sucking on your brilliance
Your little toy soldiers got big, you got old
Like little toy soldiers they did as they were told
With some fictional foreign invasion they took to your hold
And before you'd considered them
They were already killing them
Sensationalize 'em
Embrace the mind of a child and
That'll break them, get them excited
As a kid it cost maybe a fiver
To make you a tyrant
Well, now it costs a little bit
Two hundred thousand civilians

Well, it's hardly a war, it's an act of God
It's cleaners with guns, it's a man with a job
One of yours dies and we'll cry for their family
Bomb a country and we'll read it in a textbook
In a hundred years, some unimaginable past
A song and a dance and we never go back
But some kid's playing games at the feet of his dad
Thinking, "My war's a big one, the best one I've had"