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Track 12 from the These Guitars Say Sorry album "We Were Younger Then", lyrics and instruments by These Guitars Say Sorry, a solo English singer-songwriter now living and performing in the Pacific Northwest in the USA.

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On the playing fields of England
There are battles won and lost
I have see them fought so many times I had almost forgot
That it's a pleasure and a honor as you go out to die
I'd do it all a thousand times
For the old school tie

So hold your head up high
So I can see you're full of pride
As you lay down your life
On the playing fields of England

Past the ranks of blue and grey
Into the old school hall
You can read the roll of honor
Or heed the distant call
Like your father before you
You'll tread a distant land
You didn't learn the first time
So now you're going back

I look in your eyes and I can see the pain
And then you ask me who's to blame
I told you it was much more than a game
On the playing fields on England

Nobody thought to question
Why you went to die
Bravely put on the uniform
And joined the end of the line
But age brings with it wisdom
But you'll never grow old to know
On the playing fields of England
You will reap what you have sown

As they fly your body homeward
Draped in your country's flag
Past lines of grieving relatives
Who know you're never coming back
On the playing fields of England
Was where you chose to play
But a generation of you
Went marching to the graving

As you lie facing the sky
I can only wonder why
You believed a pack of lies about the playing fields of England
The playing fields of England

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from We Were Younger Then, released January 16, 2016
Music & Lyrics by These Guitars Say Sorry. Mastering by Eric Miller.

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Jeremias Langsämmer / Laxá / Siegfried Jünger / These Guitars Say Sorry. Washington

Composer from England, now working in the Pacific Northwest.

Producing classical, ambient, soundtracks, baroque pop and EDM as well as instrumental post-rock and guitar based music under the identities of Jeremias Langsämmer, Siegfried Jünger, Laxá and These Guitars Say Sorry. ... more

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