Skrewdriver - Prisoner of Peace lyrics

He stuck up for his country, but he didn't like the cost The European brother war, and lives were being lost He saw the grieving mothers whose sons could not be found He wanted peace to stop the endless coffins on the ground He got up on one morning and he went out to his plane He said good-bye to his wife, but doubts were in his brain To sue for peace was his idea in 1941 But the bankers' grip was oh so tight, and the chance for peace was gone Chorus: Free Rudolf Hess How long can they keep him there? We can only guess I said free Rudolf Hess How long can they keep him there? We can only guess He never realized that day that chivalry had died Britain was in alien hands but at least a man had tried Forty years is a long long time in a prison cell to be And I feel ashamed at the sentence pa**ed on a man who wanted peace (Repeat Chorus) And now the situation has changed in many ways The Allies want to let him go, they've decided he has paid The Red scum in the Kremlin with their kosher values try To keep a proud man locked away until the day he dies (Repeat Chorus) He's a prisoner of peace Kept there at the will of the Marxists in the east He's a prisoner of peace Kept there at the wishes of the Marxists in the east