Open your eyes, you're still here, still safe 
at peace in this world 
so great, you're free, you don't have 
to fight for your life 
but just say, just say 
there's fire from the sky 
and you're burning alive 

why all this pain and poison in her mind? 
what can you change when hatred made her blind? 
soldiers 
no reason to look into her eyes 
no one to hold her 
no one who really cares 

lifeless expressions, destroyed all conceptions 
for children in the street 
who's there to help you 
when all is forgotten and torn apart by fear? 
no one to hold her 
no one who really cares 

oh please don't cry 
oh no war child 

the [bad word] for power 
that grows by the hour 
like the blood beneath her feet 
despairing with heartache 
there must be somebody 
to help her in such need 
no one to hold her 
no one who really cares 

oh please don't cry 
oh no war child 
oh please don't cry 
oh no war child 

open your eyes, you're still here, still safe 
at peace in this world 
so great, you're free, you don't have 
to fight for your life 
war child 

oh please don't cry 
oh no war child 
oh please don't cry 
oh no war child