Turning

[Paris Women]
Did you see them
Going off to fight
Children of the barricade
Who didn't last the night?

Did you see them
Lying where they died?
Someone used to cradle them
And kiss them when they cried
Did you see them lying side by side?

Who will wake them?
No one ever will
No one ever told them
That a summer day can kill.

They were schoolboys
Never held a gun
Fighting for a new world
That would rise up like the sun
Where's that new world
Now the fighting's done?

Nothing changes
Nothing ever will
Every year another brat
Another mouth to fill.

Same old story, what's the use of tears
What's the use of praying if there's nobody who hears
Turning, turning, turning, turning, turning
Through the years.

Turning, turning, turning through the years
Minutes into hours and the hours into years
Nothing changes, nothing ever can
Round and round the roundabout and back where you began
Round and round and back where you began!