All I hear are peace talks and battle cries

Everyone's losing - nobody's winning,
So run for your lives when the shrapnel's spinning

Pictures of the crippled - wounded on the frontline
Someone else's problem - you're sitting on a landmine
When will we see reason? Sometimes I think we'll never
Learn that children have the right to laugh - and dying is forever

All I hear are peace talks and battle cries

No time for laughter - we're too busy dying,
In this 'Devil's Playground' - bullets are flying

There's another star in heaven - and footprints on the moon
So ignore the reign of terror - the bloody red monsoon
Neighbour fighting neighbour - oh see how quick they run
To tear down the white flag and pick up the gun

Peace talks and battle cries - apathy can kill
Put a price on human life - pay 'the butcher's bill'
Everybody's losing - nobody's winning,
Run for your lives when the shrapnel's spinning

Hear my prayer from the Valley of the Shadow -
For a child in an unmarked grave
Take my hand in the hour of darkness -
While there's someone left to save

But you can't hear me - all you can hear are

Peace talks and battle cries - apathy can kill,
Put a price on human life - pay 'the butcher's bill'
No time for laughter - we're too busy dying,
In this 'Devil's Playground' where bullets are flying

I think about the children who have no hopes or homes,
Born into a battlfield - war's all they've ever known
Neighbour loving neighbour - will that day ever come
When we shake hands in friendship and survey the damage done

All I hear are peace talks and battle cries

Everyone's losing - nobody's winning,
So run for your lives when the shrapnel's spinning

Hear my prayer from the Valley of the Shadow -
For a child in an unmarked grave
Take my hand in the hour of darkness -
While there's someone left to save

Why won't you help me?
Why can't you hear me?