Mercenaries (Ready for War) - John Cale

Mercenaries are usless, disunited, unfaithful

They have nothing more to keep them in a battle

Other than a meager wage

Which is just about enough to make them wanna kill for you

But never enough to make them wanna die for ya

I’m just another soldier boy

I’m just another soldier boy

Looking for work

Looking for work

Looking for work

My rifle is my friend

My rifle is my friend

I clean my rifle everyday

I clean my rifle everyday

That’s why my rifle is my friend

Ready for war, ready for war

Ready for war, ready for war

Ready for war, ready for war

Ready for war, ready for war

Did some work in Zaire, the jolly old Belgian Congo

Went back to Geneva to get paid

Back there in Geneva, that’s were the money grows

That’s were the money grows, that’s were the money flows

They didn’t wanna pay me

They didn’t wanna pay me, but they did

Try to separate me from my money

Is try to separate me from my life

Ready for war, ready for war

Ready for war, ready for war

Ready for war, ready for war

Ready for war, ready for war

Let’s go to Moscow, let’s go to Moscow

Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go to Moscow

Fight a backdoor to the Kremlin

Push it down and walk on in

5000 feet and closing

Target visibility one nine

4000 feet and closing

Target visibility two six

3000 feet and closing

Target visibility seven nine

2000 feet and closing

Visibility one ten

1000 feet and closing

Visibility seven four

500 feet and closing

Target visibility zero!

Ready for war, ready for war

You better be ready for war

Ready for war, ready for war

Are you ready for war

Ready for war, ready for war