Christmas in Kandahar
I'm writing tonight
From the lines here in Kandahar
Bunks beneath neon lights
Hear the others all snore and fart
Planes take off in the night
On missions unknown
While the rest of us turn away
And face the night all alone
Fighting season is through
And the winter seems here to stay
Not like it was in June
Wrapper ceremonies every day
Put the flag on the box
Then fly the boy home
We salute and then turn away
And face the night all alone
On the boardwalk tonight
Karaoke 'til half past ten
Hockey under the lights
Just can't help those Canadians
While the Yanks and the Brits
Line up for the phone
Make their calls and then turn away
To face their night all alone
Could do much worse, I guess
Than a Christmas in Kandahar
I ate too much at the mess
And stumbled home to this cold guitar.
Someone turns off the lights
But I sit like a stone
'Til I lay down and turn away
To face the night all alone
From the lines here in Kandahar
Bunks beneath neon lights
Hear the others all snore and fart
Planes take off in the night
On missions unknown
While the rest of us turn away
And face the night all alone
Fighting season is through
And the winter seems here to stay
Not like it was in June
Wrapper ceremonies every day
Put the flag on the box
Then fly the boy home
We salute and then turn away
And face the night all alone
On the boardwalk tonight
Karaoke 'til half past ten
Hockey under the lights
Just can't help those Canadians
While the Yanks and the Brits
Line up for the phone
Make their calls and then turn away
To face their night all alone
Could do much worse, I guess
Than a Christmas in Kandahar
I ate too much at the mess
And stumbled home to this cold guitar.
Someone turns off the lights
But I sit like a stone
'Til I lay down and turn away
To face the night all alone
Credits
Writer(s): Iain Campbell Smith
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
Link
© 2024 All rights reserved. Rockol.com S.r.l. Website image policy
Rockol
- Rockol only uses images and photos made available for promotional purposes (“for press use”) by record companies, artist managements and p.r. agencies.
- Said images are used to exert a right to report and a finality of the criticism, in a degraded mode compliant to copyright laws, and exclusively inclosed in our own informative content.
- Only non-exclusive images addressed to newspaper use and, in general, copyright-free are accepted.
- Live photos are published when licensed by photographers whose copyright is quoted.
- Rockol is available to pay the right holder a fair fee should a published image’s author be unknown at the time of publishing.
Feedback
Please immediately report the presence of images possibly not compliant with the above cases so as to quickly verify an improper use: where confirmed, we would immediately proceed to their removal.