Alan Shacklock - Sixty Eight Guns lyrics

And now they're trying to take my life away Forever young I cannot stay Hey On every corner I can see them there They don't know my name they don't know my kind They're after you with their promises (Promises of love) They're after you to sign your life away (Yeah, yeah) Sixty-eight guns will never die Sixty-eight guns, our battle cry Sixty-eight guns Sixty-eight guns Oh, the sixty-eight Living in the backstreets That's our home from home The painted walls were all we've ever known 'The Guns Forever' that's our battle cry It is the flag that we fly so high For every day they'll try and drag us down (Drag us down and down) I cry with anger I have done no crime No (Yeah, yeah) Sixty-eight guns will never die Sixty-eight guns, our battle cry Sixty-eight guns will never die Sixty-eight guns, our battle cry Sixty-eight guns Sixty-eight guns The sixty-eight Up on the terrace I can hear the crowd roar Sixty-eight guns And in the subway I can hear them whisper Sixty-eight guns Through all the raging glory of the years We never once thought of the fears For what we'd do when the battle cry was over Nothing lasts forever is all they seem to tell you when you're young (I, I do swear To unbreak the promise To unbreak the vow Unbreak it) When you're young Have no illusion, no disillusion Unbreak the promise Unbreak the vow Uphold the promise Sixty-eight guns Sixty-eight guns will never die Sixty-eight guns, our battle cry Sixty-eight guns will never die Sixty-eight guns, our battle cry Sixty-eight guns Sixty-eight guns The sixty-eight guns Sixty-eight guns The sixty-eight guns