Wilfred Owen Lyrics

From a market town, we both came

Wilfred Owen is my name

I wrote my poems so people could see

That war is just insanity

We lost some battles

But we won the war

I didn't know what I was fighting for

Freedom and peace, the prizes to be won

Or fame and glory for the one

The politicians, they talk all night

Making plans to put things right

Religion, politics, power and greed, this is all that they need

They fuel the fire that burns so bright

The devil rules the world tonight

Let me tell you what I saw

When they sent me off to war

Bodies lying by my side

Men committing suicide

Children on their dead mother's breast

Pain and death at its best

From a market town, we both came

Harold Whitfield is my name

A Victoria Cross was awarded to me, to honour my bravery

I captured a lewis gun in the Eygiptian sun

killed three men

On that day a battle was won

Let me tell you what I saw

When they sent me off to war

Bodies lying by my side

Men committing suicide

Children on their dead mother's breast

Pain and death at its best

The politicians, they talk all night

Making plans to put things right

Religion, politics, power and greed, this is all that they need

They fuel the fire that burns so bright

The devil rules the world today

Doesn't matter what we say

From the same market town, I've been sent

Just 19, my youth not yet spent

I'm told the war is to be won

To protect my wife and my son

My name is not important to you

I just have a duty to do

Let me tell you what I see

Whilst the men of power crave victory

Bodies lying by my side

Men committing suicide

The fields are red, the bodies piled high

I feel that I'm here to die

But this brain of mine can't let me think

Of anything to do with drink

Alcohol and tablets too

They all stand in the queue

To ease the pain and drown the screams

Turn my nightmares into dreams

Will I return to the market town

Where I had laid my roots down

Or will my story be told to all

By a bright blue plaque on a wall