Gunshots shatter the peace of night it's just another fire fight for the people of this little town but for the dying soldier well, he's feeling ten years older as he's lying face down on the ground all the words that are in his head are all the words his mother said as she would put him to bed back home your daddy, well he died in the Falklands fighting for another man's cause and your brother he was k**ed in the last war now your mother's , well she's lying home alone Every day she sees your face on the picture on the fireplace with your brother as he was leaving school then a day came five years ago you said "mother, i need to know" and you spoke the words your brother spoke before "I've seen the things my daddy's done and I've seen the medals that he's won and i know this is what he would have wanted-for me" but your daddy, well he died in the Falklands fighting for another man's cause and your brother he was k**ed in the last war now your mother's , well she's lying home alone Now she wonders at it all Just in his name did he break, your heroes fall And how many more are gonna answer the call They're gonna fight, fight and die in another country's war They're gonna die for religion, they didn't believe in at all They're gonna die in a place, they should never been at all Oh, never been at all 'Cos your daddy, well he died in the Falklands fighting for another man's cause and your brother he was k**ed in the last war now your mother's , well she's lying home alone