SUDS - Conscript Lyrics

Back in 1942, my Dad volunteered to go away to war
Just an 18-year-old country lad
But he knew what he was going for
If I got the call, had to go, had no choice
Doubt I could say why with an honest voice

If Basic didn't break me, I still couldn't call myself a patriot
Governments leading us towards a nation I don't want to represent
Couldn't say it's because we value human life
When the first of us don't have the same rights

We're all going away
We're all going away
We're all going away
What am I supposed to say?
I'm not an invader
I am not a saviour
Dad believed the cause
But now what is it for?

Is it nationalistic pride?

Not for Queen or country
Or for speeches fed to me
We can't take the higher ground
Morally and allow
Our homemade genocide
I'm not a part of their apartheid

Apartheid. Apartheid. Apartheid

Yeah, we're all going away
We're all going away
We're all going away
What am I supposed to say?
I'm not an invader
I am not a saviour
Dad believed the cause
But now what is it for?