Lyrics - Roses in December - (Ian Walker)

We left the school in springtime with eighteen years away,
With the parties and the dancing, the laughing and the play,
Time lay around us like the space around a star,
But by wintertime I’d lost you, in that short and bloody war.

Chorus:
Roses in December see the winter’s darkness through,
Like roses in December are my memories of you.

By summertime, we’d made our plans to love and to share,
You looked for work, you wouldn’t shirk but no-one seemed to care.
No training scheme could fill your dream, it wasn’t meant for you,
So you signed up for the forces and you joined that fateful crew.

Chorus

Your ship sailed on the morning tide, the bands played and we cheered,
I longed for word each day and night, no reason to be scared,
The finest force on all the seas, they’d show the enemy,
But the dark nights grew aye longer, when the started the killing spree.

Chorus

The news hit like a driving punch that throws you to the ground,
He’s dead, he’s dead, rang round my head, an empty aching sound,
The shell had hit, the ship burned out, he never stood a chance,
That bloody war, a nation’s pride, had stopped his teenage dance.

Chorus

A cross stands on a lonely hill, on that distant island shore,
It’s so peaceful now you’d never think there’d ever been a war,
And when leaders say ‘They could have talked’ I just break down and cry,
Why did they not start talking - before he had to die......

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