When the cannons learn to sleep

The sky stitched shut with smoke and sirens

Bootprints bruising the morning light

Maps with teeth and borders biting

Drums that swallow up the night

But somewhere under shattered steeples

A violin hums soft and low

A stubborn seed beneath the rubble

Whispers

"I am going to grow"

Steel can shout

But it can't remember

The lullabies our mothers sang

And fire may dance in cruel December

But it forgets the taste of rain

Lay me down on sheets of silver

Let the earth rock me to sleep

The snow is falling soft and still

And somewhere

My love

I believe

That we will build a world of peace

When the cannons learn to sleep

They turn the water red with roses

And tell you it's your cross to bear

But they can't drown out the singing

In the caverns and the lairs

So somewhere far away from front lines

I hear the song that calls us home

When no one sleeps beneath the ashes

Or the soil

Dark and cold

Lay me down on sheets of silver

Let the earth rock me to sleep

The snow is falling soft and still

And somewhere

My love

I believe

That we will build a world of peace

When the cannons learn to sleep

This is our ground

And we're gonna hold it

This is our ground

And we're gonna hold it

This is our ground

And we're gonna hold it

This is our ground

And we're gonna hold it

This is our ground

And we're gonna hold it

This is our ground

And we're gonna hold it

This is our ground

And we're gonna hold it

This is our ground

And we're gonna hold it