Turning Lyrics

Turning lyrics

[The women of Paris mourn their lost loved ones.]

 

 Women 

 Did you see them

 Going off to fight?

 Children of the barricade

 Who didn't last the night?

 Did you see them

 Lying where they died?

 Someone used to cradle them

 And kiss them when they cried.

 Did you see them

 Lying side by side?

 

 Who will wake them?

 No one ever will.

 No one ever told them

 That a summer day can kill.

 They were schoolboys

 Never held a gun

 Fighting for a new world

 That would rise up like the sun

 Where's that new world

 Now the fighting's done?

 

 Nothing changes, nothing ever will

 Every year another brat, another mouth to fill.

 Same old story, what's the use of tears?

 What's the use of praying if there's nobody who hears?

 Turning, turning, turning, turning, turning

 Through the years.

 

 Turning, turning, turning through the years

 Minutes into hours and the hours into years.

 Nothing changes, nothing ever can

 Round and round the roundabout and back where you began!

 Round and round and back where you began!