Lyrics

A Peaceful Life
Roy Hurd

Ronnie was born a rednecks son
Turned eighteen left home on a dead run
Straight for the California coast
Where he wouldn’t be afraid to let his soft side show
He settled down in Santa Cruz where a painful past is easy to loose
He started making friends who were just like him
Down by that ocean side
He said

Chorus:
Yeah yeah yeah I can be my self
No no no you can’t hurt me now
I have the right
Yeah yeah yeah

Molly was married five long years
The love in her heart was replaced by fear
She had style class and brains
But she lost herself in his anger and pain
One brave night she packed some things and left a little note
Rolled up inside her wedding ring
This is what she wrote
She said

Yeah yeah yeah I can be my self
No no no you can’t hurt me now
I have the right
To a peaceful life

Bridge:

The bells of freedom will not ring
Peace will always be a dreamers thing
Till every woman child and man
Can stand up side by side hand in hand
Singing

Yeah yeah yeah I can be my self
No no no you can’t hurt me now
Being different isn’t worth a fight
We all have the right
To a peaceful life