Pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa
From the heights of the Kailash
Down the clambering depths of Hell
Warfronts lined up in steady stead
With a thousand stories to tell
Of a son devoid of paternal care
Or a father of his last rites
A wife living in marital blues
A prisoner to dark days and long nights
A difficult living coping up with
The hard look on the ration shop
The fury of longing and belongingness
The interjections, comma, full stop.
Pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa
The pounding of machine guns
The distress of life at home
The duty to hold your ranks
And the pangs of living lone
The fangs of a life of boredom
And scams that catch the public eye
The dread of defeat, of shameful retreat
The guilt of men dead before your eyes.
Pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa
And nations will continue to militarise
To build armies stronger than before
And fend oblivious attacks, defend
And spend more and more and more
And men would continue to fight
Like Romans in ancient Rome
And spare no son, nor wife or life
Just like the brave days of old.
From the heights of the Kailash
Down the clambering depths of Hell
Warfronts lined up in steady stead
With a thousand stories to tell
Of a son devoid of paternal care
Or a father of his last rites
A wife living in marital blues
A prisoner to dark days and long nights
A difficult living coping up with
The hard look on the ration shop
The fury of longing and belongingness
The interjections, comma, full stop.
Pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa
The pounding of machine guns
The distress of life at home
The duty to hold your ranks
And the pangs of living lone
The fangs of a life of boredom
And scams that catch the public eye
The dread of defeat, of shameful retreat
The guilt of men dead before your eyes.
Pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa
And nations will continue to militarise
To build armies stronger than before
And fend oblivious attacks, defend
And spend more and more and more
And men would continue to fight
Like Romans in ancient Rome
And spare no son, nor wife or life
Just like the brave days of old.