DESCRIPTION:
The song "Spilt Petrol (Rainbow Song)" as featured on the 2008 album "Eaglesong" by Franco-English band Learning to Rip.

Lyrics:

Looking down at spilt petrol, spreading across a road
So many colours glowing, as if from a rainbow flowed
And its high time that we reflect on whats preventing world peace
The big people wont be happy til they get their hands on all the grease
We keep whining as the prices keep rising, and to spill it is all its for
But thats nothing compared the price paid by those theyre sending off to war
And its high time we asked ourselves, on what is this battle based?
We sacrifice what should be dear to us and then let the prize go to waste

Why are we fighting over the rainbow?
Your sons fall as the prices soar high
Why are we fighting over the rainbow?
Why are you sending them off to die?
Cause the sky belongs to every bird
And this rainbow is for all to share
And once youve slaughtered the rest of the world
The pot of gold may no longer be there

Youre the magpie ripping the crow to shreds
When he was never a threat to your supposed supremacy
The rainbow stained with a thousand reds
From the blood youve spilt just to be
The king of a kingdom where theres no one left
You know it wasnt worth it after all
The world we loved, through the middle cleft
The rainbow disappears as the rain begins to fall

You always dreamed of being the eagle flying high
But now youre hungering after power as you tear across the sky
But its high time you realised that therell be no one left to rule
If you continue to rip like you learnt to do at school
With power comes responsibility and thats what you need to face
If others are gonna help you then you need to give them the space
And its high time you realised you cant keep acting the clown
You cant just kick the ladder away and watch the world falling down

Why are we fighting over the rainbow?
Your sons fall as the prices soar high
Why are we fighting over the rainbow?
Why are you sending them off to die?
Cause the sky belongs to every bird
And this rainbow is for all to share
And once youve slaughtered the rest of the world
The pot of gold may no longer be there

Youre the magpie ripping the crow to shreds
When he was never a threat to your supposed supremacy
The rainbow stained with a thousand reds
From the blood youve spilt just to be
The king of a kingdom where theres no one left
You know it wasnt worth it after all
The world we loved, through the middle cleft
The rainbow disappears as the rain begins to fall