Turning Lyrics - Les Miserables

[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.