Song Lyrics Unknown - La Colombe    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> U>> Unknown Singer Lyrics [Unknown other resources]>> La Colombe Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Unknown Music Title/Track: La Colombe Theme ID: 4639 Album: N/A LA COLOMBE Why all these bugles crying for squads of young men drilled To kill and to be killed and waiting by this train Why the orders loud and hoarse, why the engine's groaning cough As it strains to drag us off into the holocaust Why crowds who sing and cry and shout and fling us flowers And trade their right for ours to murder and to die The dove has torn her wings so no more songs of love We are not here to sing, we're here to kill the dove Why has this moment come when childhood has to die When hope shrinks to a sigh and speech into a drum Why are they pale and still, young boys trained overnight Conscripts forced to fight and dressed in grey to kill These rain clouds massing tight, this trainload battle bound This moving burial ground sent thundering toward the night Why statues towering brave above the last defeat Old word and lies repeat across the new made grave Why the same still birth that victory always brought These hoards of glory bought by men with mouths of earth Dead ash without a spark where cities glittered bright For guns probe every light and crush it in the dark And why your face undone with jagged lines of tears That gave in those first years all peace I ever won Your body in the gloom, the platform fading back Your shadow on the track, a flower on a tomb And why these days ahead when I must let you cry And live prepared to die as if our love were dead @war @soldier @love by Alasdair Clayre recorded by Judy Collins filename[ LACOLOMB SF ===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Lady Isobel And The Elf Knight, Lady Margaret And King William, Lady Mary, Lady Mary Sails, Lady Of Carlisle, Lady Of Pleasure, Laird O Cockpen, Laird O Linne, Laird O Logie, Laird Of The Dainty Doonby, Lakes Of Ponchartrain, Lambs On The Green Hills, Lament Of The Reservist, Lamkin, Lamoille River, Lancashire Lass, Land Of Libertie, Landlady Of France, Landladys Daughter, Landlords Daughter, Landlords Lullaby, Lani, Lanigans Ball, Lark In The Morning, Lass Amonst The Heather, Lass From The Low Country, Lass Of Loch Royale Lord Gregory, Lassie Gathering Nuts, Lassie Wi The Yellow Coatie, Last Bouquet, Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream, Last Trip In The Fall, Lavender Cowboy, Lazarus, Lazy Lout, Leaboys Lassie, Leather Bottel, Leatherheaded Songsters, Leatherwing Bat, Leave Her Johnny, Leaving Liverpool, Leaving Of Liverpool New Version, Leaving On A Jet Plane, Leftright, Leg I Left Behind, Legion Of The Rearguard, Lemon Tree, Lesotho Anthem Text, Lesotho Native Anthem Text, Let Him Go Let Him Tarry, Other Unknown song Lyrics 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall Lyrics A Bird in a Gilded Cage Lyrics A Fenian Song Lyrics A Fool Such As I Lyrics A Friend Like You Lyrics A Hero of the Wrong War Lyrics A Horse Named Bill Lyrics A Hundred Years from Now Lyrics A Kangaroo Sat on an Oak Lyrics A Little Bit of Solitude Lyrics A Living Wage Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Unknown Prophets Lyrics Unleashed Lyrics Unleashed Power Lyrics Unlimited Nation Lyrics Unlimited Sound Lyrics UNLOCO Lyrics Unlord Lyrics UNLV Lyrics Unni Wilhelmsen Lyrics Uno Svenningsson Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy