There's a war outside I can hear the distant guns tonight There's a war outside I don't know whether to run or fight If I open this door I may be deafened by the cannons roar There's a war outside tonight There's a child outside I can hear her crying and she's so alone There's a child outside The first refugee is the last one home If I open this door They might flood in from that foreign shore There's a child outside tonight Everything's okay, everything's fine Just close the door until the end of time Satellite TV, turn off the news Nothing but bad news, bad news And no one wants to hear another bad news blues There's a war outside We don't need to know who's right or wrong There's a war outside The cannons are singing their warring songs Tired and hungry in a hand-out line The wrong place at the wrong time There's a war outside tonight There's a war outside And the guns are closer than they were last night There's a war outside I don't know whether to run or fight If I open this door I may be deafened by the cannons' roar There's a war outside tonight Everything's okay, everything's fine Just close your door until the end of time Satellite TV, turn off the news Nothing but bad news, bad news And no one wants to hear another bad news blues