Turning

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 (Turning, turning)

Minutes into hours and the hours into years (Minutes, hours)

Nothing changes

Nothing ever can (Nothing changes)

Round and round the roundabout and back where you began

Round and round and back where you began