Open your eyes, you're still here, still safe
at peace in this world
so great, you're free, you don't have
to fight for your life
but just say, just say
there's fire from the sky
and you're burning alive

why all this pain and poison in her mind?
what can you change when hatred made her blind?
soldiers
no reason to look into her eyes
no one to hold her
no one who really cares

lifeless expressions, destroyed all conceptions
for children in the street
who's there to help you
when all is forgotten and torn apart by fear?
no one to hold her
no one who really cares
oh please don't cry
oh no war child

the struggle for power
that grows by the hour
like the blood beneath her feet
despairing with heartache
there must be somebody
to help her in such need
no one to hold her
no one who really cares

oh please don't cry
oh no war child
oh please don't cry
oh no war child

open your eyes, you're still here, still safe
at peace in this world
so great, you're free, you don't have
to fight for your life
war child

oh please don't cry
oh no war child
oh please don't cry
oh no war child