Does the world ever seem like a nightmare
Some suffer but the other ones don't care
It doesn't matter if it's going on elsewhere
Like it doesn't happen if it's not happening here

There's a girl with only a mother
And a dad who won't seem to bother
No love, so she finds a lover
Now she has a child who doesn't have a father

I hope the Prince of peace is coming soon
Yeah, I hope the Prince of peace is coming soon
We'll learn to make a plowshare from a gun
'Cause we won't need them when the kingdom comes

When the Communists turn into the Terrorists
But the Axis came before the Soviets
And before that came the Confederates
We'll always have a war to fight, you can count on this

With every cure there comes another sickness
The earth dies with every bit of progress
We've gone deaf to the cries of the oppressed
What we need is Jesus to redeem us

I hope the Prince of peace is coming soon
Yeah, I hope the Prince of peace is coming soon
We'll learn to make a plowshare from a gun
'Cause we won't need them when the kingdom comes

Now the world doesn't work 'cause we've broken it
And we need dope and Prozac just to cope with it
Now the Beast speaks his peace to the Congress,
Plans to propagate Proposition 666

Hitler's still alive in the knives of abortionists
And the news twists the truth like contortionists
And I wonder what happened to humanity
We say peace but we're heading for calamity

I hope the Prince of peace is coming soon
Yeah, I hope the Prince of peace is coming soon
We'll learn to make a plowshare from a gun
'Cause we won't need them when the kingdom comes

We long for the day when we shall see the heavens and the earth as they should be