War and Peace



War and Peace was written and performed for the XWP episode "The Bitter Suite". It is available on the Varese Sarabande album XWP Soundtrack Volume Three. The music was written by Joseph LoDuca with lyrics by Pamela Phillips Oland.

Lyrics
WARRIORS
 * Praise the winds of chance that blew
 * Xena back where friends are true
 * We would fight to death for you, brave Xena
 * When your mighty chakram arcs
 * throwing fierce magnetic sparks
 * No one ever hits her mark like Xena
 * Famed for prowess with a sword
 * Who's as feared and as adored
 * You've not lived til you've been gored by Xena.

WARRIOR #1
 * You're the warrior princess
 * who's as strong as an oak

WARRIOR #2
 * You've got eyes that can tear out
 * the heart of a bloke

WARRIOR #3
 * With one look you can wilt a flower

WARRIOR #4
 * Curdle milk or make men cower

WARRIORS
 * Welcome home, Xena, welcome home

ARES
 * You are the most divine, delicious warrior
 * A man can't help saluting your return
 * And if you start my heart
 * it's just the way you slash and burn
 * Bewitching woman, straining at the armour plate
 * You singe me with the ardour you inflame
 * And in my carnal heart
 * there's not a sorry shred of shame

WARRIORS
 * You and me love war
 * Doesn't matter what it's for
 * Pandemonium reigns and we're bludgeoning brains
 * Give us War, War, War
 * keep it down to a roar

Warrior #5
 * Words of wisdom Ares said

ARES
 * When in battle keep your head

WARRIORS
 * Warriors love, War, War, War

VILLAGERS
 * O'er the Bridge of Tears
 * she's crossed and she's paid a fearful cost
 * Her blood innocence is lost, Gabrielle
 * Now the past has set her free
 * And she's traveled home to be
 * With her old friends you and me, Gabrielle

VILLAGER #1
 * You've been plucked out from
 * the heart of our lives for so long

VILLAGER #2
 * Now we're grateful
 * you've come back to the place you belong

VILLAGER #3
 * For what ails the panacea

VILLAGER #4
 * surely waits in Poteidaea

VILLAGERS
 * Welcome home, Gabrielle, welcome home

LILA
 * Villains, fools and kings
 * have made their mark on you
 * Leave their easy evil in the dust
 * If your child had lived,
 * we'd surely make her welcome, too

VILLAGERS
 * You and me love peace
 * with the ducks and goats and geese
 * While the hours away baking bread, pitching hay
 * We love peace, peace, peace
 * simply joys that never cease

VILLAGER #1
 * Nothing changes but the time

SMALL GROUP OF VILLAGERS
 * We don't even change our mind

VILLAGERS
 * Villagers love Peace, Peace, Peace

ARES
 * Pulverizing foes requires strategy
 * There's no mortal born who meets your skill
 * Xena join my vision - don't deny your destiny

WARRIORS
 * You and me love war
 * Doesn't matter what it's for

WARRIOR #6
 * Chop the tree down, burn the root

ARES
 * Vengeance can be such a hoot

WARRIORS
 * Warriors love, War, War, War

LILA
 * Xena was no friend, she worked to twist your mind
 * Though you tried to change her deadly ways
 * Take the scythe - it's just a case of killing to be kind

VILLAGERS
 * You and me love peace
 * with the ducks and goats and geese

LILA
 * Sit and watch the world go by

VILLAGE COUPLE
 * Vegetate until you die

VILLAGERS
 * Villagers love Peace, Peace, Peace

WARRIORS
 * We love war

VILLAGERS
 * Peace is such a lovely state...
 * We can kill you so can hate

WARRIORS
 * Fear! Lies!  Smite and smote and pulverize

VILLAGERS
 * Here the simple life's a delight

WARRIORS
 * Pus and gore

VILLAGERS
 * Just you put your hand in mine,
 * sure your future's on the line

WARRIORS
 * You've a son you must avenge,
 * know you must extract revenge

VILLAGERS
 * You must know that when

WARRIORS
 * Don't be put aside by beauty,
 * Xena you must do your duty

VILLAGERS
 * Hope died she freed you

ALL VOICES
 * Ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah ah...
 * Ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah ah...

VILLAGERS
 * Peace!

WARRIORS
 * War!

VILLAGERS
 * Peace!

WARRIORS
 * War!