*****Erasure Lyrics*****
*****Version 10*****
Albums and B-Sides

-Painstakingly compiled and transcribed by John Setlik
-Source of lyrics indicated for each album or song
-Please do not re-distribute for commercial purposes

-The Soldiers Return-

Slow the years go by
They stole your man off to war
Will you see the child
As you sing a better song
And it pains me
To think the soldiers
I will pray
For you've gone to guide you home

chorus:
And she cried for the soldiers return
Despair of feeling alone for so long
By the light of a candle that burns
For his life for the day of the soldiers return

Hear the cannons fire
Lost voices echo in the night
See the spoils of war
Young men are falling, ooh
Hear the drummer
Marching over the hill
Love returning
The graves of the battle lies still

chorus

Hear the drummer
Marching over the hill
Love returning
And the graves of the battle lies still

chorus