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I will not take your side

In bloodshed

I will not take your side

In revenge

I will not march beside you

In conflict, 

In war,

In striking back

Who knows who struck first,

Anyway

We'd have to go back

To the beginning of man

And count from there

I will not strike next,

And I will not strike last

I will not march beside

As you're striking out at

Anyone

For any reason

Not in the million years

Ahead,

My friend

I don't know if past lives 

Are real

And I don't know what I've done

To be here

Though I coulda been there

Where you're marching towards now

You'd look at me different

But we're still the same, somehow

So I will not take your side

In bloodshed

I will not take your side

In revenge

I will not march beside you

In conflict, 

In war,

In striking back

Who knows who struck first,

Anyhow

But I will not strike next,

And I will not strike last

You're on your own in this

No matter how many lives

Ahead

We live, my friend

But I'll always be there after the broken

Innocents,

And the harmed

Unarmed,

Are mended

And your self-inflicted wounds, 

Like others,

Need treating

When the olive trees

That still stand

Are ready to be trimmed,

I'll be there on the mountain

Before sunrise

By your side, then