Galleon

People Like Us

People like us, they laugh and they cry,
People like us, make love and not war,
Move close to me, the way that friends do,
So I can show you, what good friends are for.

Sunday’s all peacefull, we stroll by the shore,
We hear on the TV there’s a new bloody war,
Their war cry is freedom, they kill if they must,
Why can’t these killers be people like us.

People like us, they laugh and they cry,
People like us, make love and not war,
Move close to me, the way that friends do,
So I can show you, what good friends are for.

Famine in Africa, no rain for two years,
They’re hungry and dying, too weak to shed tears,
Because of their colour, must they hungry and thirst,
They’re our brothers for God sake, they’re people like us.

People like us, they laugh and they cry,
People like us, make love and not war,
Move close to me, the way that friends do,
So I can show you, what good friends are for.

Let all our leaders, those men of great power,
Join hands round the world, make this the hour,
To lay down your weapons, end hungry and thirst,
So our children can be proud of people like us.

People like us, they laugh and they cry,
People like us, make love and not war,
Move close to me, the way that friends do,
So I can show you, what good friends are for.