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Sailor shanty, Irish punk rock

if the war is over
twenty years from today
at sunup
will you be able to say
I fought for something

twenty years from today
did you choose a side
or stand aside when it came time to choose
and throw the dice, to decide
who will win, and who will lose?

and twenty years from today
will you remember why you fought?
or didn't fight? And was it all in vain?
were the things that matter most to you,
were they worth the suffering and pain?

Or did you stand the sideline
For fear of choosing wrong?
Or losing it all because
the cost of doing what you believe is right
wasn't worth the risk of standing?

twenty years from today
will you look on in regret
and wish when what you could have stood for
is taken and long gone.

and say to yourself each morning
"I was there. I could have chose.
Chose to stand."

And wonder till your grave
What could have been.