Over By Christmas

The troops are falling in foreign lands
With guns digging graves in their breasts
The battlefields choke on corpses from
Both sides of this pointless war

The drums keep pounding on and on
Teenage mothers lose their lovers fast
Childhood is ripped to shreds
By hand grenades raining from the sky

When will the countries come together?
Find the peace beyond the breaking haze
They promised us that it would be over
It would all be over by Christmas