Little Caesar

This war's a big one, the best one you've had
You've never wanted something so bad
Like that set of toy soldiers you begged for from daddy
Like guns, he considered it, figured you'd get rid of it one day

You got lucky when you were like five
And in your head, your little soldiers did fight for their lives
How you'd rip off their arms and you'd set them alight
In your head, they were in on it, little fucking idiots

Your little gladiators, you little Caesar
Your men wouldn't stop fighting, so you didn't either
Now this war's a small one you wail as a preacher
To a vacuum of innocence sucking on your brilliance

Your little toy soldiers got big, you got old
Like little toy soldiers, they did as they were told
Was some fictional foreign invasion they took to your hold
And before you considered 'em, they were already killing 'em

Sensationalise them, embrace the mind of a child
And that'll break 'em, get 'em excited
As a kid, it cost maybe a fiver to make you a tyrant
Well, now it costs a little bit, two-hundred thousand civilians

It's hardly a war, it's an act of god
It's cleaners with guns, it's a man with a job
One of yours dies and we'll cry for their family
Bomb a country and we'll read it in a text book

In a hundred years, some unimaginable past
A song and a dance and we never go back
But some kid's playing games at the feet of his dad
Thinking "My war's a big one, the best one I've had"