I have no heart for listening to the men who talk of peace They're putting all their nonsense in my way Won't you please, My Love, please rest your tired little hands We've been talking half the night and there's so much more to say

Mothers asking for just one more night before their babies come And whispering in the smells of dusty tea Someplace there's a bed of timeless loving turned to stone But the sun is shining yellow and it's turned to shine on me

Sons are breathing discontent in the circling vapor light And frozen little soldiers guard their homeland through the night So a million nameless candles flicker out this one last time And the heartbeat in that aching crowd, no, it will not beat with mine

The answers were all given to the faces now in tears And heaven led us all into the war The children who once laughed have disappeared behind the sun It's the season for re-living, but they're living here no more

Hearts so filled of pride and passion Sacrificed in blood of nations Stand we here in humbled pleading Save the souls who in retreating Pray for peace and ease their needing now

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