[Verse 1]

"Make me an instrument of your peace"

That's what she said when the smoke bore silence

When all the fighting slowed

When touching skin was still

Not close enough to find the soldiers nearby

[Verse 2]

Said, "Make me an instrument of your peace

Your peace as kind as an air raid siren"

She cursed the dawn, still and cold

Said “It’s better to feel

Another person than do no violence,” said

[Chorus]

“When your bullets are gone

And you still can't connect

With the one you love

I'll be your bayonet”

[Verse 3]

I showed her chessboards and cathedrals

Translating oceans into bishops’ footsteps

That space between us glows

And passion means to kill

And bones are no more than myths of doctors

[Verse 4]

But with her hands, I planted saplings

And with her ax saw them grow and crumble

Where every sparrow's nest casts off its eggs like sandbags as it flew to heaven

[Verse 5]

She's the rays from the sky burning cancer to skin

She's the juress who smiles convicting Anne Boleyn

She's the feast without end bursting all who partake

And when I raise that white flag then the war starts again

[Chorus]

When your bullets are gone

And you still can't connect

With the one you love

I'll be your bayonet

When your cover is blown

Your hiding place is found

I will be your revealer deep underground

[Chorus]

When your bullets are gone

And you still can't connect

With the one you love

I’ll be your bayonet

When your cover is blown

Your hiding place is found

I will be your revealer deep underground

[Chorus]

When your bullets are gone

And you still can’t connect

With the one you love

I'll be your bayonet

When your cover is blown

Your hiding place is found

I will be your revealer deep underground

I will be your revealer deep underground

I will be your revealer deep underground