stand or fall

Crying parents tell their children
If you survive, don't do as we did.
Son exclaims there'll be nothing to do too
Daughter says she'll be dead with you.

While foreign affairs are screwing rotten,
Life morale has hit rock bottom.
Dying embers stand forgotten
Talks of peace were being downtrodden.

Is this the value of our existence?
Should we proclaim with such persistence?
Our destiny relies on conscience
Red or Blue, what's the difference?

An empty face reflects extinction
Ugly scars divide the nation
Desecrate the population
There will be no exaltation

-- The Fixx (1982)