O, Peace

Peace, o peace
Can we have it? Can we have it?
'Cause now I can't seem to find it

Is there hope for the troubled heart?
Are there answers to questions asked in sorrow
Where no words suffice?

When there's nobody else who can
Put this riotous storm
To sleep inside me
Can I count on you?

Peace, o peace
Are you near me? Could you even be?
'Cause now you feel far away from me

In the midst of the pain it's like
Only violence rules
Is there a prospect
Of another way?

In a turbulent world that's torn
To the core of itself
We need a healer
Hope outside the hurt

Peace, o peace
Can we have it? Can we have it?
The real thing, not a counterfeit
Do we even want it?

Songs of desperate hearts and of the hopeless crying out for an end
To all the chaos hanging by fingernails onto a promise
That by the blood on a cross there will be justice

Peace, o peace
Where are you
Where are you now?

Prince of peace
How I need you, how I need you
I won't find rest here without you