Peacetime

One victory they burned down And sometimes its hard To take you kite shopping In Neil's yard That was then and I don't know how But I was caught in the middle And it doesn't matter now Wherever you...

Galileo fell in love As a Galilean boy And he wondered what in heavens Who'd invented such a joy But the question got the better Of his scientific mind And to his blind and dyin' day He'd look up high...

Decisions grow into visions End up in prisons... Little decisions I've gotta find me a preacher man I've gotta make decisions Maybe he'll show me a vision of the day he was risen And I'll rise right...

Should I pray? Is it safe? Put my faith in rewards Somewhere a lifetime away? Lose all of my friends to these prayers? Lose the rest of my life to these prayers? It don't look safe to have faith Am I...

Summer's a pleasant time Flowers of every colour The water runs o'er the heugh And I long for my true lover Aye waukin-O Waukin still and weary Sleep I can get nane For thinking of my dearie Ay...

Don't know what I'm gonna do Everything is broken in two I miss my man, my son and my daughter I can see 'em now in the muddy water Never underestimate Those of us who dream and wait I don't wanna go,...

In peacetime When church bells ring They scatter birds Through hopeful skies In summer fields A straw-headed boy With so much to find In peacetime And in peacetime When fires burn Gunpowder stars Fill...

The dam on our doorstep Frozen over, undiscovered, Covered nature's sculptures fine, And the man-made beauty shines, For the first time in life, I behold the Afton's might, And the waterworks don't...

Oh the lights in the city are like diamonds The street lamps, the signs and the cars Though it's bright in the city what are diamonds? When they're turning out all of our stars Wid ye gang tae the...