Kris Kristofferson The Circle Lyrics

The Circle Lyrics

Written about Layla Al-Atar, a cherished Iraqi artist who was killed when a
missile struck her home, instead of it’s intended target, a building where a
trial was taking place concerning the assassination attempt of George Bush snr.
 The missiles were fired by the Clinton government.  

And for the
Argentinean disappeared, ‘Los Olbidados’. 



Who killed this woman
this artist this mother

Who broke the candle and snuffed out her
light

Along with her husband and wounded her children

And sauntered
away like a beast in the night



Not I said the soldier I just follow
orders and it was my duty to do my job well

Not I said the leader who
ordered the slaughter, I’m saddened it happened 

But then, war is
hell



Not us said the others who heard of the horror

Turned a
cold shoulder on all that was done

In all the confusion a single
conclusion

The circle of sorrow has only begun



Straight to
the circle on Sundays

Down through the canyons they come

Bearing
names of their mothers and daughters

Names of their fathers and sons



Stolen away with no warning, never to ever return

On el Rio del
Muerto, All the bridges are burned

Los desaparecedos, lost in the
darkness alone

Gone from the face of the earth

With no trace left
behind them to mark with a stone

And the faces of Los Olbidados, only
survivors recall

But for the pain and the heartbreak, did they matter at
all?



Slowly the circle of sadness, Spins in the Plaza mayor

Lonesome remains of the madness and pain

In a world gone insane in a
war



And the song of those broken survivors, dancing alone in the
dark

With the silence of Los Olbidados, like a hole in the heart