You said that if you go in hard
Peace on earth
They're reading names out over the radio
You won't get hurt
To throw a drowning man a line?
Peace on earth
Peace on earth
For peace on earth
So the monster will not break you
To see the color in his eyes
And it's already gone too far
Tell the ones who hear no sound
Jesus, can you take the time
They say that what you mock
Won't get to know
Whose sons are living in the ground
The words are stickin' in my throat
No one cries like a mother cries
That there's gonna be peace on earth
Where I grew up, there weren't many trees
Sick of sorrow, sick of the pain
Peace on earth
Whose sons are living in the ground
No who's or why's
Peace on earth
Their lives are bigger than any big idea
Peace on earth
Sean and Julia, Gareth, Ann, and Breda
And you become a monster
To throw a drowning man a line?
Hear it every Christmas time
She never got to say goodbye
All the folks, the rest of us
I'm sick of hearing again and again
Peace on earth
Now he's in the dirt, peace on earth
To tell the ones who hear no sound
Jesus, can you take the time
Where there was, we'd tear them down
Jesus and the song you wrote
But hope and history won't rhyme
Will surely overtake you
And use them on our enemies
So what's it worth, this peace on earth
