Released: September 1, 2017
Songwriter: Bob Dylan
Producer: Jack Petruzzelli Joan Osborne Keith Cotton
[Verse 1]
Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks
[Verse 2]
You that never done nothing
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it’s your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
Then you turn and run farther
While the fast bullets fly
[Verse 3]
Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
World war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain
[Verse 4]
You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you sit back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
While young people’s blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud
[Verse 5]
You’ve thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
The fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my babies
Unborn and unnamed
Ah, ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins
[Verse 6]
How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I’m young
You might say I’m unlearned
But there’s one thing I know
Though I’m younger than you
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do
[Verse 7]
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good?
Will it buy you forgiveness?
Do you think that it could?
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul
[Verse 8]
When day you will die
And your death may come soon
I'll follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I’ll watch while you’re lowered
Down to your deathbed
I’ll stand over your grave
'Till I’m sure that you’re dead
Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks
[Verse 2]
You that never done nothing
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it’s your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
Then you turn and run farther
While the fast bullets fly
[Verse 3]
Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
World war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain
[Verse 4]
You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you sit back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
While young people’s blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud
[Verse 5]
You’ve thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
The fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my babies
Unborn and unnamed
Ah, ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins
[Verse 6]
How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I’m young
You might say I’m unlearned
But there’s one thing I know
Though I’m younger than you
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do
[Verse 7]
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good?
Will it buy you forgiveness?
Do you think that it could?
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul
[Verse 8]
When day you will die
And your death may come soon
I'll follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I’ll watch while you’re lowered
Down to your deathbed
I’ll stand over your grave
'Till I’m sure that you’re dead
more tracks from the album
Songs of Bob Dylan
- Tangled Up in Blue
- You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
- Masters of War
- You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
- High Water (For Charley Patton)
- Dark Eyes
- Spanish Harlem Incident
- Tryin’ to Get to Heaven
- Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
- Highway 61 Revisited
- Buckets of Rain
- Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
- Ring Them Bells
From the album
- Songs of Bob Dylan (2017)
Joan Osborne popular songs
- Make You Feel My Love
- Tangled Up in Blue
- Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
- Buckets of Rain
- Highway 61 Revisited
- Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
- Tryin’ to Get to Heaven
- Spanish Harlem Incident
- Dark Eyes
- High Water (For Charley Patton)
- You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
- Masters of War
- You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
- Ring Them Bells
- Man in the Long Black Coat
- Love’s in Need of Love Today
- Think