Cheap Weapons lyrics

[Verse 1]
Cheap crossbows; cheap halberds
Cheap pikes with their cheap iron heads
Cheap soldiers; cry "forage!"
And you needn't pay to keep them fed

[Chorus]
Cheap armies make for cheap excuses
Cheap weapons make for easy war
Cheap wars that you can keep on fighting
Thirty years, a hundred years, and more!

[Verse 2]
Gunpowder; brass cannons
Cost higher but they win your war
Star castles; massed pikemen
Will not win you battles any more

[Chorus]
Cheap armies make for cheap excusеs
Cheap weapons make for еasy war
Cheap wars that you can keep on fighting
Thirty years, a hundred years, and more!

[Verse 3]
Smart missiles; beam weapons
Ten thousand bucks for every shot
Sure winners cost billions
Victory costs everything you've got
[Chorus]
Cheap armies make for cheap excuses
Cheap weapons make for easy war
Cheap wars that you can keep on fighting
Thirty years, a hundred years, and more!

[Instrumental]

[Verse 4]
War-winning big money
A game nobody can afford
Cheap battles no longer
Gone the way of halberd, pike and sword

[Chorus]
Cheap armies make for cheap excuses
Cheap weapons make for easy war
Cheap wars that you can keep on fighting
Thirty years, a hundred years, and more!
No more!