Still Spinning Shrapnel - Skyclad

Everyone’s losing, nobody’s winning

So run for your lives when shrapnel’s spinning

Pictures of the crippled

Wounded on the frontline

Someone else’s problem

You’re sitting on a landmine

When will we see reason?

Sometimes I think we’ll never

Learn that children have the right to laugh

And dying is forever

All I hear are peace talks and battle cries

No time for laughter, we’re too busy dying

In this Devil’s playground where bullets are flying

There’s another star in heaven

And footprints on the moon

So ignore the reign of terror

The bloody red monsoon

Neighbour fighting neighbour

Oh, see how quick they run

To tear down the white flag

And pick up the gun

Peace talks and battle cries

Apathy can kill

Put a price on human life

Pay the butcher’s bill

Everybody’s losing, nobody’s winning

Run for your lives when the shrapnel’s spinning

Hear my prayer from the Valley of the Shadow

For a child in an unmarked grave

Take my hand in the hour of darkness

While there’s someone left to save

Hear my prayer from the Valley of the Shadow

For a child in an unmarked grave

Take my hand in the hour of darkness

But you can’t hear me, all you can hear are…

…peace talks and battle cries

Apathy can kill

Put a price on human life

Pay the butcher’s bill

No time for laughter, we’re too busy dying

In this Devil’s playground where bullets are flying

I think about the children

Who have no hopes or homes

Born into a battlefield

War’s all they’ve ever known

Neighbour loving neighbour

Will that day ever come?

When we shake hands in friendship`

And survey the damage done

All I hear are peace talks and battle cries

Everyone’s losing, nobody’s winning

So run for your lives when shrapnel’s spinning

Hear my prayer from the Valley of the Shadow

For a child in an unmarked grave

Take my hand in the hour of darkness

While there’s someone left to save

Why won’t you help me?

Why can’t you hear me?