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Written: 1985
Released: 2000 on
'Cupid Is A Drunkard'
Notes: Inspired by Jacques Brel's song 'La Statue' (The Statue).
All across France there are prominent monuments to the war dead, and
Brel sings his song from the view point of the statue of the soldier that
always forms the centre piece of? these monuments - "I'd like to get
hold of that son of Lent who had engraved beneath my statue 'God calls
back those he loves, and it was him he loved the most' - me, who never
prayed to God except for when I had toothache, me who never prayed to
God except when I was afraid of Satan, me who only prayed to Satan
when I was in love, me who only prayed to Satan when I was afraid of
God. Ah that child of Lent, I'd like him here, and I'd like it if children
didn't look at me."
I didn't die for my country
I didn't die for my roast beef
I didn't die
for duty free
I didn't die for tax relief
I didn't die for Auntie
Joan
I didn't die for Uncle Fred
I didn't die for someone's throne
I
didn't die for what they said
I died just because I died
I had no last
request
I died to swell the stupid pride
In someone else's chest
I
died a piece of cannon bait
Because I had no choice
I died to answer for
the hate
In someone else's voice