Peacetime

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PEACETIME

Two old ladies scream from a newspaper page
Fleeing their home in the war of the age
Tears spill from my eyes on an aeroplane seat
I’m flying home for Christmas

Food on the table, family safe and well
I go to work each day, I’ve got a job to go to
I’ve got my lover, I’ve got my friends
I’m safe well, I’m safe and well

It’s easy to write a love song in peacetime

No bombs or grenades no land mines
No one to drag you out of bed screaming in the night
And know you’ll never be disturbed until you want to be

You’ve no food to fight for, no bullets whizzing by your head
And you’re safe and sound with him, it’s easy to write a love song

Down the bloody years it’s the comfortable men who give the order
That piece of the map is rightfully ours
So send in the armies like a game of Risk
Take another sip of gin and watch it all unfold

Bomb them all in that terrain, lets get it done
Man the tanks and start the planes let’s get it done
Press the button we’re off again
Let’s get it done, before lunchtime

They’ve designed another bomb
They’ve designed another gun
They’ve designed another germ
God knows we don’t need it

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from jane o’brien, released January 6, 2006
Vocals: Jane O’Brien
Keyboards: Andreas Günther
Drums: Martin Stieber
Bass: Carsten Körtling
Arranged by Stieber, Günther, Körtling & O’Brien
Produced and recorded by Frank Itt at Sudio 4
Mixed by Martin Stieber and Frank Itt
Mastered by Hinsch Audio

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Jane O’Brien Hamburg, Germany

Dubliner Jane O'Brien cut her teeth in Barcelona as a singer in an all female acapella band. She began writing songs in earnest in Hamburg where she has lived and played for many years. The yearning soul in her voice comes from her Irish folk roots (Boreen) but the warm velvet overtones arise from her jazz diva alter ego. (Jane O'Brien and Band, S.T.A.R.) ... more

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