So he found his way To a smiling shore A year or two From a strange war The gentle lies To dying eyes A thousand miles of walking Old man talking Last night I heard him shouting in his sleep He doesn't need A Sunday in November Every night for forty years My father still remembers For this is his kingdom, his home And his story were lost in the struggle
For power and glorious ideals The final solution To no one's problem Friends and lovers in stinking rows Avoiding their eyes Checking their numbers Burning their clothes Soul survivor You wouldn't even see him in a crowd The family man waits in a queue to draw his pension Nursing memories of a life He can't bring himself to mention