作词 : STRONG, BARRETT/WHITFIELD, NORMAN
If you grew up in the sixties, you grew up with war on TV every night.  A war that your friends were involved in.
And uh, I wanna do this song tonight for all the young people out there.
If you're in your teens... 'Cause I remember a lot of my friends when we were 17 or 18, we didn't have much of a chance to think about how we felt about a lot of things.
And uh, the next time they're gonna be looking at you.
And you're gonna need a lot of information to know what you're gonna wanna do.
Because in 1985, blind faith in your leaders or in anything will get you killed.
'Cause what I'm talking about here is...

(War, huh), yeah yeah yeah
(What is it good for?) Absolutely nothing
Say it again
(War, huh), whoa whoa whoa yeah
(What is it good for?) Absolutely nothing
Come on

War is something that I despise
For it means the destruction of innocent lives
And thousand words in mothers' cry
When their sons go off to fight to give their lives, yeah

(War, huh), woah woah woah yeah
(What is it good for?) Absolutely nothing
Say it again
(War, huh), woah no no yeah
(What is it good for?) Absolutely nothing, hey

(War), it ain't nothing but a heartbreaker
(War), friend only to the undertaker

Yeah, war is the enemy of all mankind
The thought of war just blows my mind
Handed down from generation to generation
Induction, destruction, who wants to die?

(War, huh), woah woah no no
(What is it good for?) Absolutely nothing
Say it again
(War, huh), yeah yeah yeah yeah
(What is it good for?) Absolutely nothing
Come on now

(War), it ain't nothing but a heartbreaker
(War), friend only to the undertaker

War has shattered many young men's dreams
Made them disabled, bitter and mean
Life is too precious to be fighting wars each day
War can't give life, it can only take it away

(War, huh), whoa whoa whoa yeah
(What is it good for?) Absolutely nothing
Say it again
(War, huh), good God, y'all
(What is it good for?) Absolutely nothing

Peace, love and understanding, all
There must be some place for these things today
They say we must fight to keep our freedom
But Lord, there's gotta be another way that's better than

(War, huh) whoa whoa whoa yeah
(What is it good for?) Absolutely nothing
Say it again
(War, huh), good God
(What is it good for?) Absolutely nothing
Come on now
(War, huh), yeah yeah yeah yeah
(What is it good for?) Absolutely nothing
Say it again
(War, huh), oh yeah
(What is it good for?) Nothing
I'm talking about (war)