Peace On Earth
Meat Loaf Lyrics

Well, goodbye my friend it was good to know you,
Farewell my friend, it has been a pleasure knowing you.

I hope you understand,
I hope you comprehend the gravity of the situation.

Twenty-one years and I ain't got nothing,
I have been here for 21 years and achieved nothing.

But sitting, wondering if I can,
I am sitting and wondering whether I am capable of achieving my dreams.

Wishing and dreaming, hoping and reaching,
I have been wishing, dreaming, hoping, and striving for something that was never meant to be.

For things I was never meant to have,
I have been trying to obtain things that were not destined to be mine.

If my foolish life's a product of my gross misconceptions,
If my imprudent life is a result of my mistaken beliefs,

Who's gonna give a damn?
Who will be concerned?

I don't want,
I am not concerned about having

Peace on earth,
global peace.

I just want to go,
I just want to return

I just want to go home.
I just want to return home.

I know I never was much more than you expected,
I know I was never a person who exceeded your expectations,

I expect I won't disappoint,
I believe I will not let you down,

But my dreams were not as hollow as the empty world I saw though,
But my aspirations were not as empty as the impersonal world I experienced,

I guess I never did get the point,
I suppose I never understood the crux of the matter,

Life cannot just be the only option left,
Life cannot be the only choice available,

The only thing you can count on in this world in regret.
The only thing one can expect from this world is disappointment.

Right world, wrong time
The right world, but the wrong moment

and they say to me, 'Hang cool teddy bear'
And they tell me to stay calm, even though it is difficult.

Best thing to do,
The best course of action is

We'll just feed them fear,
We will instill fear in them

Get them thinking about there,
Make them focus on some other place

And forgetting about here,
And forget the present moment.

We won't try to fight,
We will not try to fight,

We won't try to win,
We will not attempt to achieve victory.

When they knock you down
When they bring you down

You gotta get back up again
You must rise again.

I don't wanna be an end,
I do not want to be the end,

For someone else's dirty hand,
For someone else's immoral purpose,

To rape the desert of it's sand,
To strip the desert of its sand,

And pluck the fertile, virgin land,
And take away the fertile, untouched land,

I don't wanna be.
I do not want to be a part of it.

But I'm not so self-righteous to think that I,
But I am not so righteous and conceited to believe that I,

Would not take one hundred thousand lives,
Would not take the lives of one hundred thousand people,

To see my mother's eyes,
To gaze into my mother's eyes,

And trace that southern smile,
And see her warm smile.

I don't wanna die,
I do not want to die,

I don't wanna die,
I do not want to die,

I don't want too much more than a working man deserves,
I do not seek anything more than what a working man warrants,

Just a life worth living and a death worth dying for.
A life that is worth living and a death that is worth dying for.