The Dead of the Wars (a song)

HER
On a midsummer's morning
In a warm summer rain
I watched from the sidelines
As you stepped on the train
I had tears in my eyes but
You hadn't a care
You were just one more boy
That your country could spare

HIM
I hadn't a care dear
I was one of the brave
We'd be back home again
In a matter of days
We'd be married by Christmas
And the ghosts that I'd fought
Are only small prices
For the safety we'd bought

Come my brave ones
Come and tell me
Are you happy when you're lying
In the wastelands, in the graveyards
When we've forgotten your names?
All the girls they lie awake at night
Dreaming of their lovers
In their dreams they are walking
With the dead of the wars

HER
In an overgrown corner
Of some foreign land
Lies a forgotten marker
For a forgotten man
Who once walked beside me
Come sun and come rain
In my dreams we'll be walking
Hand in hand once again

HIM
In our dreams we'll walk together dear
We'll be lovers once more
We'll lay flowers at the gravesides
Of the dead of the war
I'll protect you, I will shelter you
From the sound of the guns
Though it's quiet now, on some distant day
The wars will return

Come my brave ones
Come and tell me
Are you happy when you're lying
In the wastelands, in the graveyards
When we've forgotten your names?
All the girls they lie awake at night
Dreaming of their lovers
In their dreams they are walking
With the dead of the wars