Peacetime Orders
Difficult for the family
Now you're living in Japan
Without our peace broker
To sue for long term plans

But you found a lasting work
Saving that country from its cracks
Here in California
They're getting upset
At the water flowing back

I hear rumours of you
Your quotations ripple through the news
You didn't need to wait long
To see your warnings proved
Did you?
Come on, say it

General MacArthur
Had a love for the far east
So they made him an emperor
Told him to win the peace
Yes, we know proclamations
Oh fine intentions never
Really plugged a leak
You wouldn't bе first to come and go
Leave no mark on thе sea
But we still wish in secret dreams
That you could feel

Feel what he felt
Knowing peacetime orders would have been carried out
Left without a peace to broker
You just scuttled the plans yourself

Tidings of you
Written into barrels of waves
Rolling into sea
With all you tried to save
Too late