The gunner's dream
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Floating down through the clouds
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Memories come rushing up to meet me now.
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In the space between the heavens
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And in the corner of some foreign field,
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I had a dream,
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I had a dream.
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Goodbye Max, goodbye Ma.
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After the service when you're walking slowly to the car
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And the silver in her hair shines in the cold November air,
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You hear the tolling bell, and touch the silk in your lapel,
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And as the tear drops rise to meet the comfort of the band,
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You take her frail hand and hold on to the dream.
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A place to stay, enough to eat,
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Somewhere old heroes shuffle safely down the street.
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Where you can speak out loud about your doubts and fears,
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And what's more no-one ever disappears,
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You never hear their standard issue kicking in your door.
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You can relax on both sides of the tracks,
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And maniacs don't blow holes in bandsmen by remote control,
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And everyone has recourse to the law,
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And no-one kills the children anymore.
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No-one kills the children anymore.
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Night after night, going round and round my brain,
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His dream is driving me insane___________________.
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In the corner of some foreign field,
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The gunner sleeps tonight.
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What's done is done.
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We cannot just write off his final scene.
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Take heed of his dream,
C Em
Take heed.