Under The Gun - Grave of Strangers

With a weeks Basic training in 1916
As the Chaplain says to his men
'Though they cant be seen
Your guardian angels,
will be there to guide you,
Dont turn and scare them away, no, no,
Dont look behind you'

In comes the pilot
on a wing and a prayer
And his de-briefing story he tells them
What Hed seen from the air '
Ten thousands dead squaddies
strewn over the fields of France'
Laid out In the message
which seemed to say to him
Looks like the angels didnt come with us
Our guardian angels didn't come with us
Who know the angels didn't come with us
To the grave of strangers
to the grave of strangers
to the grave of strangers

1939 the story is the same
Exept for the Conscies with their a stretchers to carry the maimed
Out of a mountain of bodies
they pull a man barely alive
Hes clutching a photograph
of his child and his wife And He tells them:
'looks like the angels didnt come with us
Our guardian angels didn't come with us
Who know the angels didn't come with us
Through the gates of hell,
through the gates of hell
through the gates of hell

Now we know better with our
mutual assurances, We buy
bigger and better guns, bigger and better bombs,
Therell be no minister,
no words of comfort.
The only insurance is,
when the time comes
This time the angels, they gonna come with us
Our guardian angels, they gonna come with us
Ooo yes the angels, they gonna come with us
Through the gates of hell, Through the gates of hell
To the grave of strangers