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Heaven on earth
We need it now
I'm sick of all of this
Hanging around
Sick of sorrow
Sick of pain
Sick of hearing again and again
That there's gonna be
Peace on earth
Where I grew up
There weren't many trees
Where there was we'd tear them down
And use them on our enemies
They say that what you mock
Will surely overtake you
And you become a monster
So the monster will not break you
It's already gone too far
Who said if you go in hard
You won't get hurt
Jesus could you take the time
To throw a drowning man a line
Peace on earth
Tell the ones who hear no sound
Whose sons are living in the ground
Peace on earth
No who's or whys
No-one cries like a mother cries
For peace on earth
She never got to say goodbye
To see the color in his eyes
Now he's in the dirt
That's peace on earth
They're reading names out over the radio
All the folks the rest of us won't get to know
Sean and Julia, Gareth, Ann and Brenda
Their lives are bigger, than any big idea
Jesus could you take the time
To throw a drowning man a line
Peace on earth
Tell the ones who hear no sound
Whose sons are living in the ground
Peace on earth
Jesus this song you wrote
The words are sticking in my throat
Peace on earth
Hear it every Christmas time
But hope and history won't rhyme
So what's it worth?
This peace on earth
Peace on earth
Peace on earth
Peace on earth
We need it now
I'm sick of all of this
Hanging around
Sick of sorrow
Sick of pain
Sick of hearing again and again
That there's gonna be
Peace on earth
Where I grew up
There weren't many trees
Where there was we'd tear them down
And use them on our enemies
They say that what you mock
Will surely overtake you
And you become a monster
So the monster will not break you
It's already gone too far
Who said if you go in hard
You won't get hurt
Jesus could you take the time
To throw a drowning man a line
Peace on earth
Tell the ones who hear no sound
Whose sons are living in the ground
Peace on earth
No who's or whys
No-one cries like a mother cries
For peace on earth
She never got to say goodbye
To see the color in his eyes
Now he's in the dirt
That's peace on earth
They're reading names out over the radio
All the folks the rest of us won't get to know
Sean and Julia, Gareth, Ann and Brenda
Their lives are bigger, than any big idea
Jesus could you take the time
To throw a drowning man a line
Peace on earth
Tell the ones who hear no sound
Whose sons are living in the ground
Peace on earth
Jesus this song you wrote
The words are sticking in my throat
Peace on earth
Hear it every Christmas time
But hope and history won't rhyme
So what's it worth?
This peace on earth
Peace on earth
Peace on earth
Peace on earth
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Track duration: 04:48
"Peace on Earth" as written by Dave Evans Adam Clayton
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Whose sons are living in the ground
Peace on Earth
No whos or whys
No one cries, like a mother cries
For peace on Earth
She never got to say goodbye
To see the colour in his eyes
Now he's in the dirt
Peace on Earth"
I went to my brother's high school graduation today, and a man went up to the mic to talk about his son who died tragically last year. It was heartbreaking. Those lines sound like they touch on the loss of a child
Will surely overtake you
And you become a monster
So the monster will not break you
I can so relate to these lines.
Sean and Julia, Garreth, Ann and Breda
Their lives are bigger than any big idea .
I think what it is trying to say is that the thoughts and memories and dreams and potential and everything of these people is a million times more important than some big idea, like religion, or power, or money.
And the bit where he sings
Hear it every Christmas time
But hope and history won't rhyme
So, what's it worth?
It almost seems like he's questioning the very point of the song, because all these hopes he has for peace don't go with mankinds history of hate and anger.
Whose sons are living in the ground''. maybe thats refering to the families who were left behind after their sons and husbans were killed or something like that
i am sick and tired of useless excuse for life like me [yes me] that just listen to these songs and just feel sad for a minute[spelt wrong] period and then just carrys on like nothing has happened.
By not doing anything it's just the same as putting another person in dirt and just adding petrol to the fire. So i say this to you, go forth and make a change, go forth and help us get back our world.
So who is with me.
Breda Devine, aged 20 months
Sean McLaughlin, 12
Julia Huges, 21
Gareth Conway, 18
Ann McCombe, 48
they're victims of the bomb that exploded in Omagh on 15th August 1998
The perfume beside him in the darkness pleases him
And makes me watch so long in front of that shut door
Pretending to have drawn near
One enters rooms
It’s easy—everyone does it
Or maybe the light came from elsewhere
I stayed where I was
I am close to the fountain—not so very close
I want to drink from it—its depth—more than that
Or perhaps not
What are you up to?! Don’t lie!
I am afraid …
It sums up the voyage
Of an intelligible crystal
Could you—without the thunder of a single eyelash
Have become the same?
I can almost see the storm’s whiteness
What will take over without me
Peace—always a snake and one that bites
[paraphrased poetry]
Under the straw, in the stable, lies Frankenstein’s monster
The Frankenstein’s monster’s daughter travels
For her and her tomcat—I yes—I paid the cab fare
We have nothing to conceal
We have nothing to miss
The war’s not yet been declared
We can’t complain ….
The volcano, in vain, calls out to the deep sleeper
Reluctant still—to go to the celebration
And buy the postcard
I sit—stand—sing—with a homemade instrument
We talk and talk
Your mouth has opened—like a rose