ARTIST: Gunther Anderson and Donna Dubé
TITLE: How Can There Be Peace
Lyrics and Chords


There's fire in the city
Fire where the houses stood just yesterday
Fire where the tanks came rolling
Rumbling through the night time

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I've seen my people cry
I've seen my people dying in the street tonight
I've seen my people hiding
Cold and hungry on the hillside

  So how can there be peace
  When my brother's blood cries out for vengeance
  How can there be peace
  When the tears of God rain down from heaven
  To wash across the mountains

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They came to take our land
They came to take our fathers and our sons away
They came and took our hearts and souls
And left us hate and anger

So how can I forgive
How can I forget what they have done to me
How can I pretend that it's not
Burning up inside me

  So how can there be peace
  When my father's land lies burned and barren
  How can there be peace
  When the tears of God rain down from heaven
  To wash across the nation

I hate them for the war
I hate them for the killing and the burning
But I will not give in to hate
I won't become my enemy

So let this war end here
Let us find a way to live in peace again
My father did not die for me to
Bathe our land in blood

  And someday there'll be peace
  When my mother's heart cries out for reason
  Someday there'll be peace
  Let us find the strength to heal inside us
  Pray that there'll be peace
  Before the tears of God rain down
  And wash away the world

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