Let us light a candle here tonight
Like a shining star so bright
Let the guns of distant fighting seize
Let us sound the bells of peace
Cause everywhere around us people are afraid
Doors are locked and guarded 
Hearts are filled with hate
We don't know what we are doing
We don't know anymore
But we know that life should be 
The way it was before

Let us put our differences aside
Make the battlefields all white
No one is wrong but no one is right
Can we just be friends tonight?
There is hungry children crying
Cold and left alone
While somewhere else a child is safe inside a happy home
We're deaf at what history had taught us all along
Now we all wish life could be the way it was before

Let us sing the song that we all know
Sing it loud so all will know
Let us dance together hand in hand
Millions ride across the land
Let the children's voices fill this winter night
And the wings of freedom once again take flight
Cause everywhere around us 
People are afraid
Doors are locked and guarded 
Hearts are filled with hate
We are deaf at what history had taught us all along
Now we all wish life could be the way it was before
We don't know what we are doing
We don't know anymore
But we know that life should be the way it was before
The way it was before