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Belle And Sebastian
Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant
I Fought In A War
I fought in a war and I left my friends behind me
To go looking for the enemy, and it wasn't very long
Before I would stand with another boy in front of me
And a corpse that just fell into me, with the bullets flying round
And I reminded myself of the words you said when we were getting on
And I bet you're making shells back home for a steady boy to wear
Round his neck, well it won't hurt to think of you as if you're waiting for
This letter to arrive because I'll be here quite a while
I fought in a war and I left my friends behind me
To go looking for the enemy, and it wasn't very long
Before I found out that the sickness there ahead of me
Went beyond the bedsit infamy of the decade gone before
And I reminded myself of the words you said when we were getting on
And I bet you're making shells back home for a steady man to wear
Round his neck, well it won't hurt to think of you as if you're waiting for
This letter to arrive because I'll be here quite a while
I fought in a war, and I didn't know where it would end
It stretched before me infinitely, I couldn't really think
Of the day beyond now, keep your head down pal
There's trouble plenty in this hour, this day
I can see hope I can see light
And I reminded myself of the looks you gave when we were getting on
And I bet you're making shells back home for a steady man to wear
Round his neck, well it won't hurt to think of you as if you're waiting for
This letter to arrive because I'll be here quite a while
- Album:
- Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
- Live 2015
- The Third Eye Centre
- Late Night Tales 2
- Miscellaneous
- The Life Pursuit
- Dear Catastrophe Waitress
- Storytelling
- Jonathan David
- Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant
- Lazy Line Painter Jane
- Legal Man
- Tigermilk
- The Boy With The Arab Strap
- This Is Just A Modern Rock Song
- Dog On Wheels
- BCC Sessions
- Non-Album Releases
- On Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance
- The BBC Sessions: Live In Belfast 2001 (Bonus Version)