On Christmas Day Lyrics

On Christmas Day lyrics

Not a tree on the skyline

Nor a bird in the wing

Whispers frozen for all time

No man's land will be king



Left deserted a cold smile

From the way they've been served

Virgin mother and her child

Turn their face from the world



Just for a moment, they're only men



On Christmas day

There'll be no killing or fighting

On Christmas day

There'll be no thunder and lighting

On Christmas day

On Christmas day



Many years they'll remember

And they'll toast absent friends

On that cold day, December

They'll be back there again



And just for a moment, they're only men



On Christmas day

There'll be no killing or fighting

On Christmas day

There'll be no thunder and lighting

On Christmas day

On Christmas day



The wind blows cruel and hostile, on that deserted land

No shepherd sacrifice the lamb



While prayers of guilt and duty, race upwards to the sky

Collide in fearsome combat cry



Oh, the guns and the ships and the planes of every county

For the wins and the gains, what a price, it's much too high

Don't look away and wonder, this savage poetry

Is set to drag you under with arms of jealousy



The sun won't rise up shining, on fields of evergreen

Shot down by a crossfire with a scream

The seasons change so slowly and bring on winter's song

Till no-one knows where they belong



Oh, the guns and the ships and the planes of every county

For the wins and the gains, what a price, it's much too high

Don't look away and wonder, this savage poetry

Is set to drag you under with arms of jealousy



On Christmas day

There'll be no killing or fighting

On Christmas day

There'll be no thunder and lighting



On Christmas day



On Christmas day



On Christmas day