Give Peace a Chance

Huge, sprawling armies, millions strong; All convinced the war would not take long. They had the world in their eyes; It all but blinded them to the painful goodbyes. Bombs exploding in a roaring blast Bullets thundering past. A soldier stepped on a landmine -- And for one eternal instant in the air, saw every comrade left behind. Comrades true, marching two by two; One went down and left the other to fight it through. Valleys of ruin, trenches of mud; Sparkling rivers, and rivers of blood. Broken spirits, pieces of shell; Makeshift crosses where somebody fell. Still bodies carried over the foam Bodies whose hearts never made it home. Going on and on, a terrible war, A war that nobody knew what they were fighting it for. Please -- stop the firing, drop the lance, Give peace a chance.