...and we should all make sure it's not repeated,
Our children are taught every day at school.
I share their guilt and horror and I tell them,
It's not your father, it's the war that's cruel.
We grown-ups know how much Alloran mattered,
That anyone else could have been the tool.
They needed someone they could blame, but I know,
It's not our princes, it's the war that's cruel.
We tell our children Alloran had no choice,
The Yeerks have forced him, made him break the rule,
And that without him, now it would be worse still...
But it's not the Yeerks, it's the war that's cruel.
Yeerks want bodies, but not war. And I've been asked,
So whose fault IS the war, Jahar the Fool?
No one's. I fight one thing. Scattered in lots of
People of lots of species, cruelty's cruel.
Our children are taught every day at school.
I share their guilt and horror and I tell them,
It's not your father, it's the war that's cruel.
We grown-ups know how much Alloran mattered,
That anyone else could have been the tool.
They needed someone they could blame, but I know,
It's not our princes, it's the war that's cruel.
We tell our children Alloran had no choice,
The Yeerks have forced him, made him break the rule,
And that without him, now it would be worse still...
But it's not the Yeerks, it's the war that's cruel.
Yeerks want bodies, but not war. And I've been asked,
So whose fault IS the war, Jahar the Fool?
No one's. I fight one thing. Scattered in lots of
People of lots of species, cruelty's cruel.