Brendan McLaughlin - You Think He Would Have Known lyrics

[INTRO]: You think he would have known, not to trust - the man who said you must, go and fight your brothers in a foreign land BUT STILL HE JOINED THE QUEUE TO SIGN WITH THAT MAN WHO DRAWS THE LINE FOR HIM TO SELL HIS SOUL FOR ITS COMMAND. WITHOUT A SINGLE WHO, WHERE OR WHY. HE GOT DRUNK TO THE LIE BUT GOD WILL ALWAYS BE ON HIS SIDE. BUT WHEN THE TIME CAME ROUND TO FIRE HIS GUN THE BLOOD BLOTTED OUT THE SUN BUT HE LIVED TO TELL THE TALE OF THE DAY HE DIED. WHEN HE GOT BACK HOME HIS HEAD COULD NO LONGER SEE. ANYTHING OF THE LIFE HE HAD BEFORE. ALL HIS FRIENDS AT ONCE COULD TELL HE'D BEEN TOO LONG IN HELL. THEY DIDN'T KNOW HIM ANYMORE. AND THE GIRL HE LOVED SO MUCH, COULDN'T KEEP IN TOUCH WITH THE WAY, HE'D COME BACK HOME TO HER. SCREAMING IN HIS SLEEP EVERY NIGHT - BETWEEN SILENCES SO TIGHT, SHE KNOWS SHE LOST HIM SOMEWHERE BACK IN THAT WAR. NOW HE WANDERS ROUND THE SCARIEST MAN IN TOWN. AFRAID OF THE SOUND OF HIS OWN VOICE. AS HE CALLS OUT TO THE YOUNG, AND OLD. NOT TO LET THEMSELVES GET SOLD TO A LIFE OF DYING - DON'T GIVE YOU A CHOICE. NOW HIS LIFE A BITTER SONG OF HOW HIS COUNTRY LET HIM DOWN. LEAVING HIM TO HIS NIGHTMARE ALL ALONE TERRIFIED TO CLOSE HIS EYES AT NIGHT AWAKING TO THE LIGHT. HE KNOWS HE LEFT HIS LIFE SOMEWHERE BACK IN THAT WAR BUT STILL HE SEES THAT SIGN OF THAT MAN WHO DRAWS THE LINE. FOR THEM TO SELL THEIRS SOUKS TO ITS COMMAND YOU WOULD THINK THEY KNOW BY NOW ONT TO TRUST THE MAN WHO SAID YOU MUST- GO AND FIGHT YOUR BROTHERS IN A FOREIGN LAND.