[2007]
Lyrics & Music by Dave Gwyther
Album: Wars Will Cease...When We Refuse To Fight Them

Barman (on me entering the pub hosting that evenings open mic): – So what type of music do you play? –
Me (on my 2nd ever live performance): – Oh, some of my own stuff –
Barman: – Well, we had this kid in here last week singing anti-Vietnam war songs. I hope you're not singing about war. –
Me: – Um, yeah. That was me. –
(on the microphone when I got up there): – I'll stop singing about it when we stop causing it –

…This is a song about a time when war is over."

[2007]
Lyrics by Dave Gwyther
Music by Dave Gwyther & Rupert Bath
Album: "Wars Will Cease...When We Refuse To Fight Them"

A melodic introduction with Rupert Bath guest staring on the guitar. Write a New Freedom suggests ideas for a different world freer from the confines of the current system.

[2008]
Lyrics by Dave Gwyther
Music by Dave Gwyther & Sturt Wills

"This song goes to those who fight
For the dying the dying of the light
For those who fight for freedom
Without taking it away"

[2007]
Lyrics by Dave Gwyther
Music by Dave Gwyther & Sturt Wills
Album: "Wars Will Cease...When We Refuse To Fight Them"

At an anti-Viet Nam war protest in American, Joan Baez walked between the peaceful student protesters and the aggressive vigilant military who were of the same age, picked up some flowers, and put them in the ends of the guns.

[2007]
Album: "Wars Will Cease...When We Refuse To Fight Them"
Lyrics by Dave Gwyther.
Music by Dave Gwyther & Sturt Wills.

Terrorist is such an ugly word… and such a false one. Terrorist simply means those who cause acts of terror WHO ARE NOT the governing body. Governments cause acts of terror all the time but these are not seen as being as morally wrong as those caused by terrorists. The spin on terrorism is that its this brand new thing that has only sprung up in a post 9/11 world but that couldn't be further from the truth. Terrorism has existed as long as civilisation has existed, because terrorism is conflict with the state. And terrorism will always exist. What we must fight is the causes of terrorism: poverty, oppression. religious extremists (but no where near as much as we're led to believe), to name but a few. Dropping a bombs on peoples houses, who may very well be against the so called terrorists that the bomb is aimed for, will only fuel terrorism, not vanquish it.

[2007]
Album: "Wars Will Cease...When We Refuse To Fight Them"
Lyrics by Dave Gwyther.
Music by Dave Gwyther & Sturt Wills.

We didn't go to Iraq because they had weapons of mass destruction, that was always obvious. But the excuse convinced the masses for a time. And then when that was failing, we were told we went to war with Iraq to free their people from a brutal dictatorship (forgetting the brutality that exists in Sudan, Zimbabwe, Israel and many other countries in the world). But the cost of 'freeing' the Iraqi people was death and destruction: 'We killed the children of those who weren't free, because we believe in democracy'.

[2007]
Album: "Wars Will Cease...When We Refuse To Fight Them"
Lyrics by Dave Gwyther
Music by Dave Gwyther & Sturt Wills

On one Christmas day during World War 1 both sides put down their guns and met in No-Mans land. They shook hands and shared cigarettes and stories and played a game of football… The WW1 was a brutal bloody battle of dying empires that saw millions perish. And yet on one historic day two sides who had been locked in desperate fighting ceased their guns and met in no-mans land where they realised that they weren't German, or English, or anything like that. They realised that they were just men. All the same. And the war, and perhaps all wars could have ceased on that day with this monumental realisation, if the commanders had not ordered the men back into the trenches, threatening that if they did not go back to shooting each other, they would be shot themselves.... (Continues)

[2007]
Album: Wars Will Cease...When We Refuse To Fight Them
Lyrics by Dave Gwyther
Music by Dave Gwyther & Sturt Wills

The land of Israel, being the ancient land of Canaan before being conquered by Moses, and arguably being a Jewish territory before that, was promised by a withdrawing British Empire to be given to the native Arabs for their assistance in World War 2. However, the devastating holocaust lingering anti-Jewish resentment in Europe resulted in millions of displace Jews. The Allies needed to resettle them. Several places were suggested, including Africa, but the Jewish people were adamant that only the land of Israel would do. And thus in 1948, to the dismay of the local Arabs, the state of Israel was born. Today it remains a state of turmoil, where the Arab population is arguably treated as second class citizens. Their freedom of movement is restricted and what little land they have is taken away. This song is about the Apartheid here.