Lyrics Turning

[WOMAN ONE]
Did you see them
Going off to fight?

[WOMAN TWO]
Children of the barricade
Who didn't last the night?

[WOMAN THREE]
Did you see them
Lying where they died?
Someone used to cradle them
And kiss them when they cried.

[WOMAN FOUR]
Did you see them lying side by side?

[WOMAN FIVE]
Who will wake them?

[WOMAN SIX]
No one ever will.

[WOMAN TWO]
No one ever told them
That a summer day can kill.

[WOMAN SEVEN]
They were schoolboys
Never held a gun...
Fighting for a new world
That would rise up like the sun.

[WOMAN THREE]
Where's that new world now the fighting's done?

[WOMAN FOUR ]
Nothing changes.

[WOMAN SEVEN]
Nothing ever will.

[WOMAN EIGHT]
Every year another brat, another mouth to fill.

[WOMAN SEVEN]
Same old story. What's the use of tears?

[WOMAN FIVE]
What's the use of praying if there's nobody who hears?

[ALL ]
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 about the roundabout and back where you began.
Round and round and back where you began!