Like Solders Do
Blue eyes fighting the grey eyes
Fighting the tears
Armed to the teeth for a war of words
reaching all the years
I advanced across a poppy field
I saw the gleam as you raised your shield
And love screamed down with the sun
Behind its back
Our fathers were all soldiers
Shall we be soldiers too
Fighting and falling like soldiers do
Nothing is clear in this
Tactical unclear war
I can't be bothered to find out
What were fighting for
No one can win this war of the senses
I see no reason to drop my defenses
So stand fat my emotions
Rally round my shaking heart
Our fathers were all soldiers
Shall we be soldiers too
Fighting and falling like soldiers do
Blue eyes fighting the grey eyes
Fighting the tears
Armed to the teeth for a war of worlds
Reaching all the years
I advanced across a poppy field
I saw the gleam as you raised your shield
And love screamed down
With the sun behind his back
I knew once again
I was under attack
So stand fast my emotions
Rally round my shaking heart
Our fathers were all soldiers
Shall we be soldiers too
Fighting and falling like soldiers
Fighting and falling like soldiers
Fighting and falling like soldiers do
Fighting the tears
Armed to the teeth for a war of words
reaching all the years
I advanced across a poppy field
I saw the gleam as you raised your shield
And love screamed down with the sun
Behind its back
Our fathers were all soldiers
Shall we be soldiers too
Fighting and falling like soldiers do
Nothing is clear in this
Tactical unclear war
I can't be bothered to find out
What were fighting for
No one can win this war of the senses
I see no reason to drop my defenses
So stand fat my emotions
Rally round my shaking heart
Our fathers were all soldiers
Shall we be soldiers too
Fighting and falling like soldiers do
Blue eyes fighting the grey eyes
Fighting the tears
Armed to the teeth for a war of worlds
Reaching all the years
I advanced across a poppy field
I saw the gleam as you raised your shield
And love screamed down
With the sun behind his back
I knew once again
I was under attack
So stand fast my emotions
Rally round my shaking heart
Our fathers were all soldiers
Shall we be soldiers too
Fighting and falling like soldiers
Fighting and falling like soldiers
Fighting and falling like soldiers do
Credits
Writer(s): Stephen William Bragg
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- The Million Things That Never Happened
- Mid-Century Modern
- Can't Be There Today - Single
- Best of Billy Bragg at the BBC 1983 - 2019
- A New England (John Peel Session, 27th July 1983)
- Bridges Not Walls
- Saffiyah Smiles
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