Blue eyes fighting the grey eyes
Fighting the tears.
Armed to the teeth,
For a war of words reaching all the years.
I advanced across a poppy field,
I saw the gleam
As you raised your shield,
And love screamed down,
With the sun behind its back.
Our fathers were all soldiers,
Shall we be soldiers too?
Fighting and falling like soldiers do.
Nothing is clear
In this tactical unclear war.
And I can't be bothered
To find out what we are fighting for.
No one can win this war of the senses,
But I see no reason to drop my defenses,
So stand fast my emotions,
Rally round my shaking heart.
Our fathers were all soldiers,
Shall we be soldiers too?
Fighting and falling like soldiers do.
Some of us carrying weapons,
Some of us praying.
Both of us trying to drown out
What the other is saying.
But the secret is out of the box,
I'll shift the ages, just smashed on the rocks,
And I sleep with one eye open,
Longing for the dawn.
Our fathers were all soldiers,
Shall we be soldiers too?
Fighting and falling like soldiers do.
Our fathers were all soldiers,
Shall we be soldiers too?
Fighting and falling like soldiers do.
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- Tooth & Nail
- Mr. Love & Justice
- Mermaid Avenue
- Mermaid Avenue-vol Ii
- Miscellaneous
- William Bloke
- No Pop, No Style, Strictly Roots
- The Internationale
- Workers Playtime
- Talking with the Taxman about Poetry
- Brewing Up With Billy Bragg
- A Concert For Kirsty MacColl
- The Bottom Line Archive Series: In Their Own Words Vol. 2
- Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions
- The Cooking Vinyl Sampler 2013
- The New Music: 16 Tracks From the Best New Albums
- No One Knows Nothing Anymore
- Mojo: 2013: The Best of the Year
- Live at the Union Chapel London
- Versions of Joanna: The Oxfam America Benefit Album