Peace On Earth
"Jesus can you take the timeTo throw a drowning man a line
Peace on Earth
Tell the ones who hear no sound
Whose sons are living in the ground
Peace on Earth
No who's or why's
No one cries like a mother cries
For peace on Earth
She never got to say goodbye
To see the color in his eyes
Now he's in the dirt
Peace on Earth
They're reading names out
Over the radio
All the folks the rest of us
Won't get to know
Sean and Julia
Gareth, Anne, and Breeda
Their lives are bigger than
Any big idea
Jesus can you take the time
To throw a drowning man a line
Peace on Earth
To tell the ones who hear no sound
Whose sons are living in the ground
Peace on Earth
Jesus in the song you wrote
The words are sticking in my throat
Peace on Earth
Hear it every Christmas time
But hope and history won't rhyme
So what's it worth
This peace on Earth
Peace on Earth
Peace on Earth
Peace on Earth"
--From "Peace On Earth, by U2.
I just heard this song for the first time in a while and it made me think of Cindy Sheehan. The poor woman dared to speak her mind, so of the course she has come under seige by the Cult of Bush. This isn't about politics, or what side of the spectrum you lean towards. This is about the human cost of Bush's war in Iraq, and about all of his deceptions that brought us to the disaster we face today.
posted by Skrambled Egghead Reborn @ 5:11 PM
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