Ezra Lipp (Sacramento, CA) - Will We Ever End the War?

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I wrote this song over the summer and then promptly forgot about it as I hadn’t shared it with anyone. Unfortunately, this fall it became all too pertinent again and it seemed an appropriate contribution to this mixtape.
I started this one thinking about the soldiers that return from war, including stories based on my own family members, and how the challenges for themselves and their families linger well after the war has “ended”. I was also of course thinking about the victims of war and how the violence and horror of war can perpetuate itself in an endless cycle.
I know there are no easy answers to the world’s problems and I don’t proclaim to know all the solutions. But I know war is not the answer. - Ezra

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Dealt the cards with your brooklyn buddies sitting round the phonograph
Too anxious to be solemn, so you all just kid and laugh

So much unknown lies ahead as you step into this void
Your naivety is a saving grace as you prepare to be deployed

Lost 2 years stuck in a body cast, discharged from japan
Is that what you had in mind when you set off to become a man?

Now your wife and your family are wondering what you’re for
They can see that your mind still lingers on that Okinawa shore
Though your disdain and your anger they can not ignore
Will you ever end the war?

Poor kid from the San Joaquin thought you’d take the GI Bill
Signed up to shave your head and make your bed, beats working at the mill

Parris Island, South Carolina such good times you never had
Then you launched off to South East Asia proudly waving that Old Glory flag

You left home a hero, returned to ridicule and scorn
Half your friends didn’t make it back and now your questioning what you had sworn

All that’s left are your memories and the uniform you had worn
In your best times and your darkest with your lost brothers that you mourn
Wonderin’ would it have been different had you not been poor?
Will you ever end the war?

9 year old in a war-torn city, lining up for bread
Still alive, but traumatized from the missiles overhead

The only home he’s known cries in ruin with a horrifying stench,
In 3 years time he’ll be radicalized and his mother he’ll avenge

Generation after generation the lesson’s slow to learn
We never get any lasting peace from cities bombed and burned

Still the autocrats march on and on despite the world’s uproar
And the dream of peace seems further off and ever more obscure
Will there come a time when we no longer endure
Will we ever end the war?
It’s up to us, what are we waiting for?
Will we ever end the war?

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from Mixtape for Palestine, fundraiser for Middle East Children's Alliance for Peace ($25-125) / SCROLL DOWN to donate directly & get music, released January 1, 2024
Ezra Lipp, recorded in bedroom 12/31/23 for this mix (written over the summer).

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The poem of "SeaweedSway" sprouted in a convo between Karl Blau & Jessie in 2007, when Karl opened for BrightBlack Morning Light at the Great American Music Hall. The music encouraged seaweed-like movement in the room. ... more

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