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Wednesday 29 June 2011

Songs I Love #10 Big Country - Come Back To Me


It's been a funny day, not sure why I have been thinking about musicians that have left us, first Lynden David Hall now Stuart Adamson. I listened to this song today and couldn't believe how poignant the lyrics were now as when they were written. I think they were written from the perspective or a Wife mourning the loss of her Husband from the Falklands War but in view of the troubles in Afghanistan they are as relevant now as then. This songs comes from an album Steeltown which was a dark angry album set written at a time when Thatchers cuts were hitting hard.



The day they had a party
Right out in the street
Flags and flowers and singing
For the homecome hero's treat
I sat in the kitchen
Without a fire on the range
I knew this house had lost the cause
To ever make me warm again

Come back to me
Days are all too long
Come back to me
You never should have gone
I was so young and full of pride
And you were wild and strong
I never knew how weak I was

I watched them gather round him
When he stepped down from the car
While tears fell on my cigarette
He handed out cigars
I have your child inside me
But you will never know
I never will forget you
While I watch that child grow


Come back to me
Days are all too long
Come back to me
You never should have gone
I was so young and full of pride
And you were wild and strong
I never knew how weak I was

I was so young and full of pride
And you were wild and strong
I never knew how weak I was

I will always be here
Fading by the day
I will wash the bloody hands
And cast the bowl away
As the years hang on me
You will always be young
And one day I will lie down
Where the rose was flung

Come back to me
Days are all too long
Come back to me
You never should have gone
I was so young and full of pride
And you were wild and strong
I never knew how weak I was

Come back to me

1 comment:

  1. There is a band I have not listened to in ages. Will dig out some vinyl later - used to love them.

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