# Victory With Nobody Dead **[Intro – piano, distant choir]** What if the bravest battle was the one we never had? What if the greatest victory sent every soldier back? **[Verse 1 – rap]** They said pick a side, I said pick up the pieces, Peace got a price, but revenge never ceases. Preachers preach peace while the presidents posture, Families fracture while the cameras capture. Maps get marked by a man in a room, Then a mother gets flowers where a son used to bloom. Medals on a mantle, names carved in granite, Everybody screaming they’re defending the planet. But tell me who won when the playground burned? Who gained ground when the children never returned? Who conquered what when the hospitals fell? If victory looks like this, victory looks like hell. **[Pre-Chorus – female vocal]** Bring them home, bring them home, Let the babies grow old. Let the stories get written without names carved in stone. **[Chorus – massive duet]** **I want a win where nobody dies,** No smoke in the sun, no fire in the skies. No mother on the phone asking heaven why, No folded-up flag where her child should lie. **Give me a victory with nobody dead,** Bread on the table, not bloodshed instead. Hands held high but no guns overhead— **That’s my kind of victory: nobody dead.** **[Verse 2 – rap]** Real strength ain’t rage, real power is patience, Talk through the tension, transform the nations. Courage is calling when hatred says hide, Finding some humanity over the divide. The enemy eats, the enemy sleeps, The enemy laughs and the enemy weeps. The enemy’s daughter draws stars on a page, The enemy’s father gets scared and gets aged. Same little heartbeat, same oxygen breath, Same desperate instinct to bargain with death. Different translation, identical prayer: “Please bring my family home from out there.” So cancel the countdown, cut through the pride, Put diplomats deep where the missiles would ride. If somebody tells me compassion is weak, I’ll tell ’em restraint takes the strength of the meek. **[Pre-Chorus]** Bring them home, bring them home, Every daughter, every son. The greatest war we’ll ever win is the war that never comes. **[Chorus]** **I want a win where nobody dies,** No smoke in the sun, no fire in the skies. No mother on the phone asking heaven why, No folded-up flag where her child should lie. **Give me a victory with nobody dead,** Bread on the table, not bloodshed instead. Hands held high but no guns overhead— **That’s my kind of victory: nobody dead.** **[Bridge – stripped piano / female lead]** What if mercy made the headlines? What if treaties topped the charts? What if leaders measured greatness by the number of beating hearts? No revenge passed down like inheritance, No child taught an ancient arrogance. Let tomorrow wake without yesterday’s debt— Forgive what we can. Prevent what comes next. **[Final Rap – drums build]** Let the tanks turn tractors, let the trenches grow trees, Let the factories manufacture medicine and peace. Let the pilots fly people safely back home, Let the drones shoot movies, let the battlefields grow. Spend the billions on bridges, on bedrooms, on bread, On keeping people living instead of counting the dead. Call me naïve—I’d rather be that Than clever enough to make a cemetery map. We’ve mastered destruction, now master restraint, Make peace look powerful, make mercy look great. The hardest flex left on this planet instead Is winning the whole thing— **with nobody dead.** **[Final Chorus – huge choir + rap ad-libs]** **I want a win where nobody dies,** No smoke in the sun, no fire in the skies. Every mother gets her child back alive, Every enemy becomes somebody we survived **with**. **Give me a victory with nobody dead,** Hope in the heart and a roof overhead. Stars still shining when the history gets read— **That’s my kind of victory: nobody dead.** Nobody dead. Everybody fed. Nobody dead. Let tomorrow live instead. **Nobody dead.**
