Last Night Another Soldier

Angelic Upstarts




I was a punk in my youth and still listen to the music today. The Army took a dim view of my punk rock clothing, not suprisingly really as Anarchy and the military dont exactly go hand in hand. One of my favourite groups was the Angelic Upstarts, this is one of their songs about a British soldier being killed, I think you will agree with me that this song is as relevant today as it was when it was written in the early 1980`s.



Last night another soldier, last night another child
No one seems to worry, no one sees his mother cry

Can you see that smart, clean soldier,
Standing straight and oh so proud
He wants to fight for Queen and country
He wants to make his family proud

A job with the future, his way to get out of it
It's his sense of romance, it never ends that way
Last night another soldier, last night another child
No one seems to worry, no one sees his mother cry

They're just facts and figures on your TV screen
Another child and another soldier, is peace just a dream

In the country strange and foreign all the people resent him
He can't cope with his problems, all the fears and hatred

Now he wish he never went he wish he never thought of it
It's not the same as fighting armies looking for the terrorists

They're just facts and figures...

Can you hear the mocking laughter from the ones that gain by it
They're not in line for the bullets, they're the ones who started it

They're just facts and figures...

Last night another soldier, last night another child
Just a number in the papers, another one of the innocent



ANGELIC UPSTARTS






© Mack (RG)"Every day feels like the day of a funeral"