[Instrumental Intro - Royal piano] [Verse 1] Tell me, friend, Why our age is written down in history as danger, a shadow hanging over all of humankind, on this Earth that always sheltered all the secrets of the stars. This gentle Earth has always fed us so that we could live with honor, so we could walk in quiet peace and simple dignity, with wiser minds to guard the spark of human worth. [Chorus] Oh Father, how it hurts me when I see the tears that fall in war. (hey...) Oh Father, how it breaks me when I see the eyes gone dark from all its crimes. Why do we choose sorrow, why do we choose pain, when we could turn and end this rushing storm of madness? We could be so happy, we could live with grace in love, in harmony. [Verse 2] Everything has gone so far we feel we cannot stop it now, our beating hearts have learned a hate so deep and heavy we cannot find a quiet place to rest upon this Earth. Maybe all our tired souls have withered, dimmed and drifted off, and that is why we cannot hear the smallest simple word: forgive and live... [Chorus] Oh Father, how it hurts me when I see the tears that fall in war. (ahh) Oh Father, how it breaks me when I see the eyes gone dark from all its crimes. Why do we choose sorrow, why do we choose pain, when we could turn and still this swirling storm of madness? We could be so happy, we could live with grace, in love, in harmony. [Bridge] Sometimes we lose the meaning of our lives to greed and empty gold. Tell me now, what has failed us? Who has failed us? Maybe we ourselves forgot the way to be the ones we were, the ones to whom the endless night of space once offered trust. [Chorus] Oh Father, how it hurts me when I see the tears that fall in war. (whispered child: why?) Oh Father, how it breaks me when I see the eyes gone dark from all its crimes. Why do we choose sorrow, why do we choose pain, when we could rise and end this spiraling cold madness? We could be so happy, we could live with grace, in love, in harmony. [Outro] (soft male duet: in love, in harmony) (little girl: in harmony...) [Weeping Guitar Solo] [Fade End]
