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Silently to silence fall |
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In the fields of futile war |
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Toys of death are spitting lead |
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Where boys that were our soldiers bled |
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War horse and war machine |
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Curse the name of liberty |
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Marching on as if they should |
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Mix in the dirt our brother's blood |
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In the mud and rain |
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What are we fighting for |
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Is it worth the pain |
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Is it worth dying for |
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Who will take the blame |
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Why did they make a war |
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Questions that come again |
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Should we be fighting at all |
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Once a ploughman hitched his team |
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Here he showed his little dream |
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Now bodies arms and legs are strewn |
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Where mustard gas and barbwire bloom |
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Each moment' like a year |
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I've nothing left inside for tears |
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Comrades dead or dying lie |
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I'm left alone asking why |
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In the mud and rain |
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What are we fighting for |
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Is it worth the pain |
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Is it worth dying for |
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Who will take the blame |
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Why did they make a war |
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Questions that come again |
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Should we be fighting at all |
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After the war |
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Left feeling no one has won |
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After the war |
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What does a soldier become |