Name: Peace Instead
Duration: P00H04M08S
Description: A Remembrance Day song, not for the fallen - though much respect is due - but for the various survivors, the physically, mentally and culturally wounded. The song was inspired by a friend of mine who once told me there was no such thing as a non-casualty in any war. Thank you Gary.

Peace Instead

from Stories by Michael C Kelly

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A Remembrance Day song, not for the fallen - though much respect is due - but for the various survivors, the physically, mentally and culturally wounded. The song was inspired by a friend of mine who once told me there was no such thing as a non-casualty in any war. Thank you Gary.

lyrics

Verse 1:
A tree in Santiago
Gives sway in a Cuban sun
To shade the memory of a corporal
It was here his wars begun

Verse 2:
There was one to end all others
By Christmas they all said
Our corporal made it home from it
But this time he bled

Chorus:
I, I know it’s been said
I, I want peace instead

Verse 3:
And a private did his training
Marched across a prairie flat
By the time he got to Normandy
Well, he was late for that

Verse 4:
His anger transferred easily
To the tyrants and their slaves
And while he raised his family
It fed a rage

Chorus:

Verse 5:
A civvie sits in wonder
At the way the world behaves
Contending leaders point at peace
As he counts the graves

Verse 6:
Their war’s are empty industries
Of the bullet and the blade
With a fallen soldier at the front
And the rest mislaid

Chorus:

Verse 7:
It’s easy to be angry
Makes everybody sad
But when I see your signs of peace
Well, you make me glad

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from Stories, released September 1, 2015
Thank you Betty Silva for your wonderful backup vocals.

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Michael C Kelly Greater Sudbury, Ontario

migashco.ca

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Remember Peace

Nov 2022
Stories

Sep 2015
Histories

Mar 2015

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