Verse 1
I found a map from a trench
It was coated in oil
So the pain and blood
Could wash clean

It showed in black the front line
that had been the front line
for 1000 and more days between.

I’ll never know if the soldier who once
held this map walked free
was his fate to drown in the bleeding mud
Or catch a bullet for insanity


Chorus
If I take your eyes
and you take my eyes
as bone and blood
we will soon be blind

If we share some love
and we gain hearts ease
little by little
Peace by Peace

Verse 2
(There was)a lad from our way
I know his Dad
think he’s a fan of the band
He joined up to fight
and he died in the fight
now he’s back a box from some far off land.

And his Ma and his Nan
Should n’er be put this hell
And when his kids read the books
With statistics, they’ll look
for the reason why he was there as well.

Chorus

Verse Three
Empathy is fleeting
and the memory of nations fails over time
Some version of some truth….
Becomes law.
But time and time again
They killed us and we killed them
so whoever said war was something any one could win?

When there’s blood on the battlefield and blood in the desert sand
The bleeding wont stop but until those fools up the top
Stop thinking that peace by war is a plan.