(Ian Walker)
Chorus:
Roses in December
See the winter's darkness through
Like roses in December
Are my memories of you
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
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 on for the forces
And you joined that fateful crew
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 they started the killing spree
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'd never stood a chance
That bloody war, a nation's pride
Had stopped his teenage dance
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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