lirik lagu 1917 – emmylou harris
(david olney)
the strange young man who comes to me
a soldier on a three day spree
he needs one night’s cheap ecstasy
and a woman’s arms to hide him.
he greets me with a courtly bow
and hides his pain by acting proud
he drinks too much and he laughs too loud
how can i deny him?
let us dance beneath the moon
i’ll sing to you claire de lune
the morning always comes too soon
but tonight the war is over.
he speaks to me in schoolboy french
of a soldier’s life inside a trench
of the look of death and the ghastly stench
i do my best to please him.
he puts two roses in a vase
two roses sadly out of place
like the gallant smile on his haggard face
playfully i tease him.
hold me neath the paris skies
let’s not talk of how or why
tomorrow’s soon enough to die
but tonight the war is over.
we make love too hard, too fast
he falls asleep his face a mask
he wakes with the shakes and he drinks from his flask
i put my arms around him.
they die in the trenches and they die in the air
in belguim and france the dead are everywhere
they die so fast there’s no time to prepare
a decent grave to surround them.
old world glory, old world fame
the old world’s gone, gone up in flames
nothing will ever be the same
and nothing lasts forever.
oh, i’d pray for him but i’ve forgotten how
and there’s nothing nothing that can save him now
there’s always another with the same funny bow
and who am i to deny them.
lux aeterna luce-at e-is domine c-m
sanctic tu-is in aeternum
qui-a pius es requiem aeternaum
dona e-is domine.
qui-a pius es requiem aeternaum
dona e-is domine
qui-a pius es et lux perpetua luce-at- e-is c-m
sancris tu-is in
aeternum qui-api-us es
tonight the war is over…
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