We met on the beach amid rumours of war 
Your head in your hand, what you saw you won't say 
As the newspapers blew in the wind 
I can see you're one of that kind 
Who carry round a time bomb in their mind, no one knows 
When you'll slip the pin 
Rumours of war 
Rumours of war 

I see that your dress is torn at the edge 
You were lost, intense, like a man on a ledge, waiting to jump 
As the waves break over the shore 
You say there's a storm that can't be delayed 
And lately it seems to be comin' this way, you can hear it break 
Like the slam of a door 
Rumours of war 
Rumours of war 

You tell me, just look all around 
At the past and the present, the cross and the crescent, 
The signs and the planets are lining up like before 
There are souls on fire in the day and the night 
On the left and the right, in the black and the white 
You can see it burn in the eyes of the rich and the poor 
Rumours of war 
Rumours of war 

Rumours of war 
Rumours of war