All I hear are peace talks and battle cries.



Everyone's losing - nobody's winning,

So run for your lives when the shrapnel's spinning.



Pictures of the crippled - wounded on the frontline

Someone else's problem - you're sitting on a landmine.

When will we see reason? Sometimes I think we'll never

Learn that children have the right to laugh - and dying is forever



All I hear are peace talks and battle cries.



No time for laughter - we're too busy dying,

In this 'Devil's Playground' - bullets are flying.



There's another star in heaven - and footprints on the moon

So ignore the reign of terror - the bloody red monsoon.

Neighbour fighting neighbour - oh see how quick they run

To tear down the white flag and pick up the gun.



Peace talks and battle cries - apathy can kill

Put a price on human life - pay 'the butcher's bill'.

Everybody's losing - nobody's winning,

Run for your lives when the shrapnel's spinning.



Hear my prayer from the Valley of the Shadow -

For a child in an unmarked grave.

Take my hand in the hour of darkness -

While there's someone left to save.



But you can't hear me - all you can hear are...



Peace talks and battle cries - apathy can kill,

Put a price on human life - pay 'the butcher's bill'.

No time for laughter - we're too busy dying,

In this 'Devil's Playground' where bullets are flying.



I think about the children who have no hopes or homes,

Born into a battlfield - war's all they've ever known.

Neighbour loving neighbour - will that day ever come

When we shake hands in friendship and survey the damage done.



All I hear are peace talks and battle cries.



Everyone's losing - nobody's winning,

So run for your lives when the shrapnel's spinning.



Hear my prayer from the Valley of the Shadow -

For a child in an unmarked grave.

Take my hand in the hour of darkness -

While there's someone left to save.



Why won't you help me?

Why can't you hear me