[Verse 1]
That’ll be the end of the road
When my battered, embittered
Body and soul will go home

[Verse 2]
That’ll be the end of the war
When we finally lay down
The barrel and the blade and go home

[Verse 3]
By the sea, so wide and treacherous
By the land, so dark and dangerous
How can we have so far to go?

[Verse 4]
That’ll be the end of the law
Of Bible, Koran, Torah, lost and gone

[Verse 5]
And the sea, so wide and treacherous
And the land, so dark and dangerous
How can we have so far to go?

[Verse 6]
That’ll be the end of arms stretched wide
Of begging for bread, of emptiness inside
[Verse 7]
And the sea, so wide and treacherous
And the land, so dark and dangerous
So far left behind

[Verse 2, repeated]
That’ll be the end of the war
When we finally lay down
The barrel and the blade and go home