The Soldier's Return Lyrics - Erasure

Slow the years go by 

They stole your man off to war 

Will you see the child 

As you sing battle songs? 

And it pains me 

To think of the soldier's plight 

I will pray 

For your God to guide you home 

And she cries for the soldier's return 

Despair of feeling alone for so long 

By the light of the candle that burns 

For his life, for the day of the soldier's return 

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Hear the cannon fire 

Lost voices echo in the night 

See the spoils of war 

Young men are falling, ooh 

Hear the drummer marchin' o'er the hill 

Love returning and the graves of the battle lie still 

And she cries for the soldier's return 

Despair of feeling alone for so long 

By the light of the candle that burns 

For his life, for the day of the soldier's return 

Hear the drummer marchin' o'er the hill 

Love returning and the graves of the battle lie still 

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And she cries for the soldier's return 

Despair of feeling alone for so long 

By the light of the candle that burns 

For his life, for the day of the soldier's return 

Young men are falling