Please lay down your pistols and your rifles
Please lay down your colours and your creeds
Please lay down your thoughts of being no-one

Concentrate on what you ought to be
Then lay down your bull%#@! and your protests
Then lay down your governments of greed

Take a look at what lies all around you
Then pray God we can live in peace


Everyone's a loner 'till he needs a helping hand
Everyone is everybody else
Everyone's a no-one 'till he wants to make a stand

God alone knows how we will survive

So please lay down your pistols and your rifles

Please lay down your colours and your creeds
Please lay down your thoughts of being no-one
Concentrate on what you ought to be


Everyone's a loner 'till he needs a helping hand
Everyone is everybody else

Everyone's a no-one 'till he wants to make a stand
God alone knows how we will survive