This song is for all the violent dead

Who know eternal peace

United Forever for all the families

Who grieve the slaughtered fleece.

Ulsterman rise from your knees and

Feel this peaceful breeze

Hope uniting hearts and minds with

Forgiving Irish ease.

Weep no more the violent dead

Lay flowered prayer on eternal beds

Inhale this peace into your lungs

No more bullets no more guns.

And your breath will fall upon Ireland

And you will know that breath of peace

Is yours.

Death comes to us all like

A bullet to the head.

Life come to us all with

The aftertaste of lead.

So take take that hatred from your heart

And recognise your brother and your father

That that bitterness from your throat

And spit it to the gutter,

Knowing that you have cut down

innocent sons and daughters

Then your filth will filter through

Polluted Irish waters,

And your breath will fall upon Ireland

And you will know that breath of peace

Is yours.