Last Night Another Soldier

Album: 2,000,000 Voices (1980)
Charted: 51
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  • Last night another soldier, last night another child
    No one seems to worry, no one sees his mother cry

    Can you see that smart, clean soldier,
    Standing straight and oh so proud
    He wants to fight for Queen and country
    He wants to make his family proud

    A job with the future, his way to get out of it
    It's his sense of romance, it never ends that way
    Last night another soldier, last night another child
    No one seems to worry, no one sees his mother cry

    They're just facts and figures on your TV screen
    Another child and another soldier, is peace just a dream

    In the country strange and foreign all the people resent him
    He can't cope with his problems, all the fears and hatred

    Now he wish he never went he wish he never thought of it
    It's not the same as fighting armies looking for the terrorists

    They're just facts and figures

    Can you hear the mocking laughter from the ones that gain by it
    They're not in line for the bullets, they're the ones who started it

    They're just facts and figures

    Last night another soldier, last night another child
    Just a number in the papers, another one of the innocent

    They're just facts and figures Writer/s: RAYMOND COWIE, THOMAS WILLIAM MENSFORTH
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