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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 (Turning, turning)
Minutes into hours and the hours into years (Minutes, hours)
Nothing changes
Nothing ever can (Nothing changes)
Round and round the roundabout and back where you began
Round and round and back where you began