In Any Tongue

Album: Rattle That Lock (2015)
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  • Home and done it's just begun
    His heart weighs more, more than it ever did before
    What has he done? God help my son
    Hey, stay a while, I'll stay up
    No sugar is enough to bring sweetness to his cup
    I know sorrow tastes the same on any tongue

    How was I to feel it
    When a gun was in my hands
    And I'd waited for so long
    How was I to see straight
    In the dust and blinding sun
    Just a pair of boots on the ground

    On the screen the young men die
    The children cry in the rubble of their lives
    What has he done? God help my son
    Hey, stay a while, I'll stay up
    The volume pumped right up but not enough to drown it out
    I hear "Mama" sounds the same in any tongue

    How am I to see you
    When my faith stands in the way
    And the wailing is long done
    How am I to know you
    With a joystick in my hand
    When the call to arms has come Writer/s: DAVID JON GILMOUR, POLLY ANNE SAMSON
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Larney Barney from NetherlandsThis is the 2015 'Anither day in paradise' continued..War for an 18 year old, training for sometimes two years with little combat, much brain washing. Children cried, as they were born soldiers of the bearocratic pigs. Ill stay up..for mamna. And survive the onslaught, not on the battlefield,but in the mind.
  • Brett Penrod from FloridaRattle that Lock
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