[Intro]
Turn the lights down low
Let the horns mourn first
For every mother waiting
For every map they cursed

[Verse]
War Men in Tailored Suits never hear the shell
They hear a stock bell ringing and they call it well
They toast in rooms where the windows shine
While somebody’s child crosses another front line
They speak of freedom with a cold clean jaw
But never show the families under martial law
They draw the arrows on a glowing screen
Then wash their hands where the water runs clean

[Pre-Chorus]
And the choir says mercy
But the engines roar
And the people keep asking
Who are these wars for

[Chorus]
War Men in Tailored Suits
Dancing where the money moves
Counting every broken roof
Like a profit, like a proof
War Men in Tailored Suits
You can’t hide behind the news
Every drumbeat tells the truth
War Men in Tailored Suits

[Verse]
They cut the wages, then they raise the flag
Put medals on a casket and a price on a bag
They call it strategy, they call it fate
But the hungry know the invoice date
There’s a kid in a city with the windows gone
There’s a nurse in the dark trying to carry on
There’s a father at a table with a letter unread
There’s a market going green when the morning turns red

[Pre-Chorus]
And the choir says mercy
But the engines roar
And the people keep asking
Who are these wars for

[Chorus]
War Men in Tailored Suits
Dancing where the money moves
Counting every broken roof
Like a profit, like a proof
War Men in Tailored Suits
You can’t hide behind the news
Every drumbeat tells the truth
War Men in Tailored Suits

[Instrumental]
Low brass crying, snare rolls slow
Organ moans where the cold winds blow
Bass keeps walking through the dust and flame
DJ cuts the speeches with the people’s names

[Bridge]
No child was born to be a headline
No home was built to be a red line
No prayer was made to feed a gun
No mother should bury the morning sun

[Breakdown]
Crowd goes quiet, one clap, two
Names in the dark come breaking through
No more profit from blood and roots
War Men in Tailored Suits

[Build-up]
Raise every candle, raise every hand
For every lost and stolen land
Let the brass come back, let the truth ignite
We sing for the living and the dead tonight

[Chorus]
War Men in Tailored Suits
Dancing where the money moves
Counting every broken roof
Like a profit, like a proof
War Men in Tailored Suits
You can’t hide behind the news
Every drumbeat tells the truth
War Men in Tailored Suits

[Chorus]
War Men in Tailored Suits
Dancing where the money moves
Counting every broken roof
Like a profit, like a proof
War Men in Tailored Suits
You can’t hide behind the news
Every drumbeat tells the truth
War Men in Tailored Suits

[Outro]
Let the drums go still
Let the horns breathe low
War Men in Tailored Suits
We know, we know, we know