Peace on earth, now or later?

Peace on earth!

Bono works for it now, not later and so do I!

Sick of hoping, we want it now!






Peace of 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 say 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 whos or whys

No one cries like a mother cries

For peace on Earth



She never got to say goodbye

To see the colour 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 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" is the eighth track from U2's 2000 album, All That You Can't Leave Behind. Its lyrics were inspired by the Real IRA Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland on 15 August 1998. The song lists the names of people (Sean, Julia, Gareth, Anne, and Breda) killed in the Omagh bombing. Similarly, inspiration for the lyric, "She never got to say goodbye / To see the colour in his eye / Now he's in the dirt" comes from the funeral of James Barker, another victim of the bombing.The Irish Times quoted his mother as stating, "I never realised how green his eyes were.

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