I heard about these kids walkin' on a train track   Forty tons of steel bearing down on them   And they just turned their backs   Channel five, asked the one who survived   'Son, why'd you do such a thing?   No reply but his eyes cried      Peace, I just need some peace   If I have to I'll do anything   Don't need your love or your sympathy   But I cannot go on living without peace      I know a man who sits and stares   At a kitchen cabinet door   That hides a whiskey bottle   He hasn't touched since      Well, this is day four   He told his wife this time he'd try   As she was just about to leave   No reply, but her eyes cried      Peace, I just need some peace   If I have to I'll do anything   Don't need your love or your sympathy   But I cannot go on living without peace      I have a friend who's looking for God   A few good self-help books is as far as she's gotten      Say a prayer tonight for that desperate child   Say a prayer tonight for that man and his wife   Say a prayer for the searching, hurting   For the one thing we all need      If you don't know what to say   Just look up to heaven's face and whisper, 'Peace'