Dover To Dunkirk

Lyrics:

• load them on board
• like so many soldiers of fortune
• with their knapsacks and their sleeping bags
• singing songs and smoking fags
• to kill the time
• complaining how life's so hard
• wondering how to sneak past the guard
• with their morphine


• (and the old men say)
• paris is the place to go
• if you have a heart that's broke
• no woman is worth fighting for
• you're better off with a whore
• and i have such a wound
• wondering if i should run
• or stay and fight for the one
• who doesn't care


• from dover to dunkirk
• with all these faces i'll never see again
• from dover to dunkirk
• the sea is as quiet as a long lost friend


• load them on board
• like so many soldiers of freedom
• carrying their homes on their backs
• the chaplain busy making cracks
• to kill the time
• wondering if they'll return
• or spend their youth as a candle burns
• crying for morphine


• (and the old men say)
• you're fools to go
• they proved that at maginot
• paris ain't worth fighting for
• she's just a tired old whore
• and i have such a wound
• wondering if i should run
• or stay and fight for the one
• who doesn't care


• from dover to dunkirk
• with all these faces i'll never see again
• from dover to dunkirk
• the sea is as quiet as a long lost friend