beads on one string

don't you ever say never

it don't mean a thing

going to get us together

like beads on one string

there's always someone to blame

you don't have to look far

now the world is a fleeting dot in the stars

i don't care how you name him

he is always the same

i just know that we shame him

when we kill in his name

this can't go on forever

this war in a ring

gotta bring us together

like beads on one string

don't you ever say never

'cause it don't mean a thing

gonna get us together

like beads on one string

every one of us perfect

but we all have a flaw

then we look for the defects and we go off to war

and we send all our children

again and again

it's our fear that we're building

and we're really the same

this can't go on forever

this war in a ring

gotta bring us together

like beads on one string

don't you ever say never

'cause it don't mean a thing

gonna get us together

like beads on one string

don't you ever say never

'cause it don't mean a thing

don't you ever say never

don't you ever say never

to never

got to know me a ring

gotta get us together

like beads on one string

like beads on a string