I knew you when you were free to live in a fantasy
Unspoiled by words and world and lonely eyes
Your nights were just so many lullabies

And peace, I heard you say was only one war away
One war away is where you now remain
That fight for peace inside is still the same

You make me want to pray and you make me want to weep
’Cause your prophets and your junkies put your friends and you to sleep
But now they’re dead and the words they said
Have wilted like the flowers in your hair
But don’t ever say that someone wasn’t there

And maybe you think, someday, that someone will show the way
The way to love, the one you’re waiting on
The Prince of Peace was waiting all along

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