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

Duet. Soul. Orchestra