Sticks and Stones

Shot down by your bullets

They shatter my faith and my bones

If you listen, the words, they hurt

They creep right under my skin, they cut so deep

Can't you understand

I don't want battles, battles, battles?

And if you lay them in my hand

I won't fight battles, battles, battles

Oh, tell me why we work so hard to break these bones

Can we try to lay down

These sticks and stones?

Sticks and stones

We crash and fall together, so sad

We don't remember why we are tearing us apart

But I can feel the cracks, the cracks in my heart, whoa

Can't you understand

I don't want battles, battles, battles?

And if you lay them in my hand

I won't fight battles, battles, battles

Oh, tell me why we work so hard to break these bones

Can we try to lay down

These sticks and stones?

Sticks and stones

Why does it have to be so hard to surrender?

When we got nothing left, nothing left to lose, lose

Can't you understand

I don't want battles, battles, battles?

And if you lay them in my hand

I won't fight battles, battles, battles

Oh, tell me why we work so hard to break these bones

Can we try to lay down

These sticks and stones?

Sticks and stones

Sticks and stones

Sticks and stones