Pride and Passion

One man's life has stalled in needing.
Words out loud that want repeating.
Fathers passed to sons their craving.
Woman's loved their children saving
Kings who walk in banners waving still.

I have no heart for listening, to the men who talk of peace.
They're putting all their nonsense in my way.
Won't you please my love, please rest your tired little hands.
We've been talking half the night, and there's so much more to say.

Mothers asking for this one more time, before their babies come
They're misled in the smells of dusty tea
Someplace there is better, where time looks nothing turned to stone
But the sun is shining yellow, and it's turned to shine on me

Someone breathing discontent in the circling vapour light
And frozen little soldiers guard their homeland through the night
And the million nameless cattle, weather out just one last time
And the heartbeat in that aching crowd no it will not beat with mine

The answer we're all given, to the base analogy
And hither led us all into the war
The children who once laughed at this, would breath behind the song
It's the season for re-living, but they're living in the heart

Someone breathing discontent in the circling vapour light
And frozen little soldiers guard their homeland through the night
So a million nameless cattle, weather out just one last time
And the heartbeat in that aching crowd no it will not beat with mine

Hearts all filled of pride and passion
Sacrificed in royal nations
Stand we here in humble breeding
Save the souls who in retreating
Prayed for and even needing now.