Must it take a life for hateful eyes
 To glisten once again
 Five hundred years like Gelignite
 Have blown us all to [bad word] 
 What savior rests while on his cross we die
 Forgotten freedom burns
 Has the Shepard led his lambs astray
 to the bigot and the gun

 Must it take a life for hateful eyes
 To glisten once again
 Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess
 Singin' [bad word] lullabies

 I watch and stare as Rosin`s eyes
 Turn a darker shade of red
 And the bullet with this sniper lie
 In their bloody gutless cell
 Must we starve on [bad word] from long ago
 Through these bars of men made steel
 Is it a great or little thing we fought
 Knelt the conscience blessed to kill

 Must it take a life for hateful eyes
 To glisten once again
 Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess
 Singin' [bad word] lullabies

 Ah, but maybe it`s the way you were taught
 Or maybe it`s the way we fought
 But a smile never grins without tears to begin
 For each kiss is a cry we all lost
 Though there is nothing left to gain
 But for the banshee that stole the grave
 Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess
 Singin' [bad word] lullabies

 I sit in and dwell on faces past
 Like memories seem to fade
 No colour left but black and white
 And soon will all turn grey
 But may these shadows rise to walk again
 With lessons [bad word] learnt
 When the blossom flowers in each our hearts
 Shall beat a new found flame

 Must it take a life for hateful eyes
 To glisten once again
 Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess
 Singin' [bad word] lullabies
 Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess
 Singin' [bad word] lullabies
 Singin' [bad word] lullabies