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Securing the PeaceUB40

Released: June 9, 2008

Songwriter: UB40

Producer: UB40

[Chorus:]
Securing the peace then preparing for war
And the people don't know what they're fighting for
Securing the peace then preparing for war
And the people don't know what they're fighting for

In peacetime sons bury their fathers
In war fathers bury their sons
The dead are all labeled as martyrs
And the living inherit the bullet and the gun

If religious crusade is your calling
Ask your god if he'll stop the bombs falling
On the heads of the poor that were silenced today
They were wailing so loud you can't hear yourself pray
A single death is tragic, a million a statistic
To say the war is fought for peace sounds cynically sadistic
Take your prayers and take your blaspheming
To the graves where the mothers are screaming
You can't convince me that you feel the loss
The last real Christian you killed on the cross

And while the world plays hide and seek
To cover up the violence
Innocence claims the right to speak
And guilt the right to silence

UB40

UB40 are an English reggae and pop band, formed in December 1978 in Birmingham. The band has had more than 50 singles in the UK Singles Chart. They have been nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album four times, and in 1984 were nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Group. UB40 have sold over 70 million records. The ethnic make-up of the band’s original line-up was diverse, with musicians of English, Irish, Jamaican, Scottish and Yemeni parentage.

Their hit singles include their debut “Food for Thought”, “Red Red Wine” and “Can’t Help Falling in Love”. Both of these also topped the UK Singles Chart, as did the band’s version of “I Got You Babe”. Their two most successful albums, Labour of Love (1983) and Promises and Lies (1993), reached number one on the UK Albums Chart.

On January 24, 2008, it was announced that Ali Campbell would be leaving the group after 30 years. It was reported by some Birmingham newspapers on 13 March 2008, that Maxi Priest would be the new lead singer of UB40 and had recorded a cover of Bob Marley’s “I Shot the Sheriff” with the band.

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