Click the following link to stream/download 'Pupil's War': https://ditto.fm/pupils-war Huge thanks to the incredible Jonathan Pears, for directing, shooting and editing this video. (https://www.jonpears.com ) (https://www.instagram.com/jon.pears) Song Credits: Benjamin Haycock - Singer-Songwriter, Rapper and Rhythm Guitarist Noah Gilbert (NG.Production) - Producer, Mastering Engineer, Electric Guitar & Drums (https://www.instagram.com/ng.producti... ) War/Refugee footage from the video - credit (all under YouTube Creative Commons License): - Syrian refugee footage: (Footage: UNHCR) - (creative commons video used - FSmanifesto) = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbYYD... - Vietnam war footage (The Refugees - Department of Defence 1968): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q92ht... - Bloody Sunday - Northern Ireland - 30 Jan. 1972, Derry, Northern Ireland): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0izN1... - Ukraine War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Dda... Creative commons video sources: https://www.youtube.com/c/MaximChroni... https://youtu.be/--uueAeOALM https://t.me/RealdocProductions https://vk.com/realdocproductions Explosion from Syria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk96i... Follow me on my socials: Website - https://www.benjaminhaycock.com Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/benjaminhaycock Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BenjaminHayc... Twitter - https://twitter.com/benjaminhaycock SoundCloud: https://www.soundcloud.com/benjaminha... Bandcamp: https://benjaminhaycock.bandcamp.com/ 'Pupil's War' Lyrics: We're drifting down the river With no hope With no purpose but our own Men and women Out there dying For no cause But when children look outside All they see is war, all they see is war All they see is violence in the eyes of men And those who have to endure They see is war, all they see is war All they see is violence in the eyes of men And those who have to endure Born in a cold world full of lost souls So we breathe smoke in and out Scorched are our livers, scolded As the pour of the liquor Rolls down our mouth Morphed into moulds Of another's clone We're becoming shorts of ourself As the money draws us Forever wallowing until we're corpses And only dead fish follow streams Down the river swallowing Each other's greed On the quest to be in the lead We forget our morals When we see the p's We develop egos that compete Indulged in our own feats What's taken for granted By me and you is another's dream We can follow creeds Read astronomy And follow philosophical theology But until we fathom actions speak A louder volume than beliefs We'll have war, casualties Run by catalytic men Who want to lead Call me pacifistic If you lack the vision But there's children Dying in the middle east We're drifting Down the river With no hope No purpose but our own Men and women Out there dying For no cause But when children look outside All they see is war All they see is war All they see is violence In the eyes of men And those who have to endure They see is war All they see is war All they see is violence In the eyes of men And those who have to endure War War Most of our struggles are a facade when you see Ukrainian children Shots fired leaving parts of bodies amidst the buildings Bleeding and broken to pieces Rogue fighters helping survivors Leaving their young to cope with the grieving Loading AK47's up Their vision's altered They listen to orders Need more than miracles on these borders Innocent auras being diminished quicker than disorder In critical quarters Losing their sanity on these mortars Programmed for this war Never finishing like a forum It's causing a generation of children to question law And order in this form They can't have conformed to this torment Capturing the core Manifestation of war Estimated devastation Twelve million in displacement Fleeing persecution and conflict to migrate Refugees and nothing more They can't have conformed to this torment Capturing the core Manifestation of war They're refugees and nothing more They can't have conformed to this torment Capturing the core Manifestation of war They're refugees And nothing more They can't have conformed To this torment Capturing the core Manifestation of war They're refugees And nothing more They can't have conformed To this torment Capturing the core Manifestation of war We're drifting Down the river With no hope With no purpose but our own All they see is war P.S. The song goes out to the people of Ukraine and to all of the children, women and men caught up in conflict and persecution throughout the world in war-torn zones. My heart goes out to you all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRcgipNGSBw License Creative Commons Attribution license