Sieben - Christmas 1914 | Текст песни

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• Christmas 1914

When moon cracked cratered as France, and star

battalions hunted, he dared my fire.

He brought me Schnapps, I gave him rum

He had no name. I never knew his name

I know he said—“Tommy, whose war we fight?”

Ich will sprechen, aber ich kann nicht



When wire was cold as frost, frost sharp as wire,

I gave him King’s tobacco, from the Kaiser

Got mellow cigars. He called me Tommy,

I called him Fritz and joined a grander army

than Kitchener’s. “Whose bloody war we fight?”

Ich will sprechen, aber ich kann nicht



That Christmas saw no crackers, just one fine

flickering candle. Hands soiled as mine

reached out to me. Under his spike

I knew he was Johann, he knew me Jack

‘Til then, I never asked whose war we fought

Ich will sprechen, aber ich kann nicht



Stars bubbled beer, moon bloomed benign

as a balloon. Daft Jack and Johann

capered a clodhop dance to stutter

the world’s new brotherhood. He called me brudder

and taught what bloody war we need to fight

Ich will sprechen, aber ich kann nicht