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The Exploited – Lets Start a War (1983) | Track profile | Dork

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Let’s Start a War
Lets Start a War

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Lets Start a War

Release date: 1983

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"Lets Start a War" is a track by The Exploited, from the album Let’s Start a War, released 1983. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

Lets Start a War

Lets start a war said maggie one day

With the unemployed masses we'll just do away

They won't mind, like sheep they'll go

They won't suss us, they'll never know

Lets start a war said maggie one day

Lets start a war said maggie one day

Lets start a war said maggie one day

You fight for your country

You die for their gain

Death and destruction all around

Shops and houses are razed to the ground

Burnt out houses empty shells

Here on earth it's just a mortal hell

Lets start a war said maggie one day

Lets start a war said maggie one day

Lets start a war said maggie one day

You fight for your country

You die for their gain

How they died no one will ever know

They said they would save us as deterrents they would be used

Except they brought destruction to an earth grows no food

No we are gone forever no tombs can hold your names

Lets start a war said maggie one day

Lets start a war said maggie one day

Lets start a war said maggie one day

You fight for your country

You die for their gain

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Track details

From Let’s Start a War

1983

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Let’s Start a War

Release year

1983

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—Lets Start a War
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—False Hopes
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Writer: John Duncan, Wattie Buchan
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