1939 Returning Lyrics - Grace/wastelands - Pete Doherty

Captured clandestine 

Crawled into the lights 

He knew he was in for a shoeing 

Just wasn't to be his night 

Dragged out of the frozen Rhine 

For the Motherland and the Third Reich 

A toeing's as good as a shoeing 

When it's not to be your night, your night 

Tread carefully, so carefully upon the drifting ice 

Caught behind enemy lines in 1939 

For Germany he sacrificed his life 

Caught behind enemy lines there in 1939 

Kids knee deep in rubble 

London urchins gray with dust 

Packed off ours in evacuations 

To farmers' wives, green and pleasant lives 

Far from the doodlebugs 

Nanna doll, she still remembers 

Leaving town in worn out shoes 

Now she's back out west in sheltered accommodations 

Homes for the old where pills aren't the only blues 

Tread carefully, so carefully upon the drifting ice 

Staring blank into the TV guide in 2009 

How it's hurting me, I've only seen her twice 

Since you went west for the second time since 1939, 39, 39