All they wanted as a picture
from a camera's cold eye,
Of a war they only heard of;
I never asked them why.
I just gave them what they asked for
and they paid me for my pain;
Complaining that it looked too raw
but that as how it came.
Now some-one is singing a song that we knew,
It seems mad that I'm thinking amid all this madness of you.
I'm just following orders, I don't understand,
What the hell was the reason that reason got so out of hand?
And what we are fighting for no-body really can tell,
Cos they leave us suspended here, half way from Heaven to Hell.
So we're half way from heaven here,
Half way from heaven here,
Half way from heaven to Hell!

Politicians play their number games
that mean nothing written on a page.
Borrowing their childrens' dreams
and acting half their age.
And fingers on the triggers now,
they blindly point their guns
At the children who they've damned to live
in the maddness they've begun
And when you ask for a reason it sounds so absurd
Cause you know bloody well that their actions speak louder than words.
When they give you a number in place of your name
With a ticket to ride to where you're only a pawn in their game.
And just what they are fighting for, no-body really can tell;
Cos they leave us suspended here half way from Heaven to Hell.
So we're half way from Heaven here,
Half way from Heaven here,
Half way from Heaven to Hell!

All they wanted as a picture
from a camera's cold eye,
Of a war they only heard of;
I never asked them why.
I just gave them what they asked for
and they paid me for my pain;
Complaining that it looked too raw
but that as how it came.
You're asking the questions to answers you held
In your own foolish hands but you foolishly threw them away,
And for all the wrong reasons you're on the right road
But you're blinded by anger and going the wrong bloody way!
And just what you are fighting for no-body really can tell
Cos you leave us suspended here half way from Heaven to Hell.
So we're half way from Heaven here,
Half way from Heaven here,
Half way from Heaven to Hell!

PB 1991