lyrics: the blink of an eye – are your sons alone?

cd: The Blink of an Eye

track 7: Are Your Sons Alone?

Are your sons alone? Are your sons alone?
Dying on a battlefield, many miles from home
You would trade your life for his, giving up your own
Mothers grieve the fallen leaves, Are your sons alone?

Did they leave with the fire of conviction?
So sure of triumphant return
But “the good fight’s” a sad contradiction
As so many mothers have learned

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And fathers deny that emotion
Saying “the cost of our freedom is high”
With young men on both sides torn to pieces
So many mothers ask why

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And history goes round in a circle
Ignoring the lessons of old
So shocked when we see we’ve gained nothing
By tearing more boys from the fold

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Bridge

And the news from the line
Brings nothing for the soul
The anguish adds to a mother’s gloom
And prayers for the time
That this horrific toll
No longer strips mothers
Of young lives in bloom

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