COUNTDOWN TO LÜTZEN 2: THE WAR STILL GOES ON

 The War Still Goes On (Show Must Go On)

Sung by the common people and the intelligentsia in the 1620s

Dark tradition... 

to conform is law; 

the Inquisition... 

wounds they inflict still raw... 

On and on, 

does anybody want to take it anymore? 

Catholicism 

is mandatory now;

forced conformism... 

who'll tell our story now? 

Hold the line...

does anybody want to take it anymore? 

The war still goes on... 

Our homes and minds are breaking, 

the world we know still quaking 

from the war... 

that still goes on...

Whatever happens,

we'll leave it all to chance,

though we don't know the steps,

we'll learn to join the dance...

On and on, 

does anybody want to take it anymore? 

In secret yearning

for our liberty,

a hope that's turning

so close to feeling free...

Outside the dawn is breaking,

but inside in the dark we're aching to be free!!

The war still goes on... 

Our homes and minds are breaking, 

the world we know still quaking 

from the war... 

that still goes on...

Our hopes are painted like most fragile butterflies...

Every day could be our last, to suffer and to die...

or to cry for absent friends...

The war still goes on... 

Could we face it with a grin?

Are we ever giving in...?

On with the war!

Our hearts to thrill,

our friends to kill,

thus shattering the will to carry on...

ON WITH THE... ON WITH THE... WAR!!

The war still goes on...