The hard path to peace

Waking up from sleep in Reston, 3-7am, then Quito, Ecuador, through October 2009.
D major, 116 BPM, 4/4

Lyrics
After the end of leave
Fumbling with her fatigue
And little time for talk
With my lover in Iraq.

Under the eagle’s beak
Let’s live creatively.
Why do we fall for speech
And easy talk of peace?

And in the law, a low
Where all the killers go
We follow.

Far down the hard path to peace
Are we so quickly appeased?
We wait, we hold to belief
Far down the hard path to peace.

A new tour and no end
Over Afghanistan
We give a prize for peace
While the eagles eat.

And every perfect speech
Works to our conceit.
And each idea’s end
We lost as we slept.

And in this high terrain
Might we escape
The refrain?

Far down the hard path to peace
Are we so quickly appeased?
Once more, love, unto the breach
Far down the hard path to peace.

Far down the hard path to peace
Far down the hard path to peace.

After the end of eve
Folding up her fatigues
We keep a reverent peace
‘til the laying of the wreath.

I’ll deal with my grief
But can’t we choose
Not to believe?

Far down the hard path to peace.
Are we so quickly appeased?
I waste ‘til I lose belief
Far down the hard path to peace.
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Some music notes

Children [will] follow a speech
C#   D    E       C#  A  G  F#
Are we so quickly appeased?
D   C# A   D  C#   A   G
Pleasing shapes of deceit
C    G          C    B  G  A
Far down the hard path to peace. 
G    F#     D   G     F#    E  D


[BDG-F#-E chord, BDG-F#-E chord D]

 can = C#D, C#D, C#AB or C#DC#EC#AB or C#DEC#DAB or C#DEC#C#AB OR
High version C#DEFEC#D (maybe for 3rd verse)

Far down the hard path to peace.
GF#D, GF#D A
Far down the hard path to peace. 
GF#D, GF#D G
Far down the hard path to peace. 
GF#D, GF#E D.