Re:Remembrance day lyrics.

mellman01

Morning all, boy is it cold out there today, anyway as normal I digress to much me thinks.
Right down to the old bizo as we say at Didcot A!.

Seeing remembrance day has just past as useual I always think of this one song lyrics on that day and it sums up my feelings on those who have gone to their maker in countless wars, sadly there is a patern here and it concerns our leaders, they seem to repeat the same sad pattern once elected.
I'm not sure why but they seem to like having wars just for the hell of it, oddly these are the very same people who tell us violence solves nothing and if you live by the sword and all that, anyway what we need to do is make it law that any politician or prime minister who wants to "kick one off" must volunteer his eldest to go and fight in the front ranks, maybe then they would hesitate just for once, it might just focus their minds a bit better.
Right back to the lyrics, here we go, it's a Levellers song called ironically "another man's war", see what you think.

Gunshots shatter the peace of night
it's just another fire fight
for the people of this little town
but for the dying soldier
well, he's feeling ten years older
as he's lying face down on the ground
all the words that are in his head
are all the words his mother said
as she would put him to bed back home

CHORUS:
your daddy, well he died in the falklands
fighting for another man's cause
and your brother he was killed in the last war
now your mother's , well she's lying home alone

Every day she sees your face
on the picture on the fireplace
with your brother as he was leaving school
then a day came five years ago
you said "mother, i need to know"
and you spoke the words your brother spoke before
"I've seen the things my daddy's done
and I've seen the medals that he's won
and i know this is what he would have wanted-for me"
but

CHORUS

Now she wonders at it all
Just in his name did he these brave young heroes fall
And how many more are gonna answer the call
They're gonna fight, fight and die in another countryes war
They're gonna die for religion, they didn't believe in at all
They're gonna die in a place, they should never been at all
Oh, never been at all

skezier

Hi Mel,

'Another mans cause' but can't remember who did it, knowing you someone like the levellers? Cris xx

mellman01

Hi Cris yep the song is another mans cause, and the album is levelling the land by the levellers so well done, although it's an old album it's still one of my favourites and this song is very fitting.

skezier

Hi Mel,

Ah the Falklands effected me personally. I kinda think the Final Cut will always take me back to that time.. its also all about the futility of war even if it is just Walters very public and musical break down!

Hope your doing ok there? ((( ))) Cris xx

mirabella

nice one mellman,you don't live so far from me,when I eventually get driving,did a bit of pracise today,up and down my lane,look out for little old beaten up fiesta,blue with bright red drivers door and give us a toot!!!! mirabella

frogmorton

Mell

I posted on this earlier....and it's gone AWOL

Thank you for posting this - I found it very moving
Love

toni xx

mellman01

No problem Toni, sorry to hear that Cris, I remember the falklands war really well, I was in my 20's when it was on, we did the right thing although the down side was it gave maggie another 4 years!, oh and Mirabella if you see a chap with a cap on driving a dark blue Rav 4 with roof bars on that will be me!.