GRAYSON HUGH

Lyrics

FOR THE INNOCENT
words & music by Grayson Hugh
(dedicated to my grandfather Dr. Frank Rawlinson, and all the other lives lost in war)

In trees and fields
the snowflakes fell
gently on the gravestone
of one I knew well
cut down way before his time
on some rocky road
caught in someone else's war
for some cause of old

Now he lies here
far from anyone
and it's snowing
for the innocent

He was a writer
and a peaceful man
never held a rifle
in his hand
but upon that fateful day
a bullet from a gun
sought him out as if to say
'I've found the meekest one'

Now it's over
before it has begun
and it's snowing
for the innocent

To you war makers
I've got this to say
there's a long list growing
of debts you'll pay
you'll pay for every brick and bone
and body in the mud
for every name on every stone
every drop of blood
your house is crumbling to the ground
there's nowhere to run
stone by stone, it's falling down
beg for mercy
there'll be none

And it's snowing for the innocent
snowing for the innocent
oh yes it it's snowing
for the innocent
snowing
for the innocent

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