U2 | Lyrics | Peace on Earth

Heaven on earth, we need it now
I'm sick of all of this hanging around
Sick of sorrow, sick of the pain
I'm sick of hearing again and again
That there's gonna be peace on earth

Where I grew up, there weren't many trees
Where there was, we'd tear them down
And use them on our enemies
They say that what you mock
Will surely overtake you

And you become a monster
So the monster will not break you
And it's already gone too far
You said that if you go in hard
You won't get hurt

Jesus, can you take the time
To 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, Ann, and Breda
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 and the song you wrote
The words are stickin' 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