Why Can't We? Lyrics

The men lay in fields today

Writing off the names reported missing

The flames shed by the hills away

Bled by the the sun

The infantry has just begun

Shooting down the planes as they cross shore

The refuging has just become

They say

Why can't we

Keep our hands together

It's you and me that hurt

Can't we see

Our lives won't last forever

And it's only 40 days

Until we get there

Intelligence sent off to sea

Reflective light leads affluent countries

Concealed they watch them open guns to

What they might be

The ocean life not knowingly wait there

Gliding through their own naive tranquility

Swallowed in our human error

Why can't we

Keep our heads together

It's you and me that hurt

Can't we see

Our lives won't last forever

And it's only 40 days

Until we get there

As the currents wash their ships in

Illuminating life

The men laid out across the beaches

Helplessly pleading "Why Me?"

Their families hold their hearts in blessing

Praying for their lives

Holding on to thoughts and

faded pictures they say

Why can't we

Keep our ourselves together

It's you and me that hurt

Can't we see

Our lives won't last forever

And it's only 40 days

Until we get there