There Never Was

(Instrumental intro)

I wish there never was
Any need for war, not anymore
Kept far from our shore
And there could be peace for evermore
A World as One                                
For all the generations to come                          
And there could always be                      
Global peace and harmony       

A Brotherhood of Man
But there never was
Never, no never, not ever
If ever there really was

(Instrumental interlude)

And so we built a ‘Neverland’
If only land
Where they could be free  
In a world of fantasy
That our children should never see
The stark face of reality                        
That awful reality    
                                     
But now it’s come to be
Now everyone can see
The destruction
And the refugees
That is why there’ll always be
Father Christmas and the tooth fairy             
And the good old Easter Bunny       
All so real                                       
In their sheltered world

But they never, ever were
Never really were
Just Fairy stories
To mask the reality

(Instrumental outro)
There never was.

Rodd Sherwin
to a composition by
Jeremy Williams