Turning

Woman one
Did you see them
Going off to fight?

Woman two
Children of the barricade
Who didn't last the night?

Woman three
They were schoolboys
Never held a gun...
Fighting for a new world
That would rise up like the sun.

Woman four
Where's that new world now the fighting's done?

Woman five
Who will wake them?

Woman six
No one ever will.

Woman seven
No one ever told them
That a summer day can kill.

Woman eight
Same old story. What's the use of tears?

Woman nine
What's the use of praying if there's nobody who hears?

All
Turning, turning, turning, turning, turning
Through the years.

Turning, turning, turning through the years
Minutes into hours and the hours into years.
Nothing changes. Nothing ever can
Round about the round about and back where you began.
Round and round and back where you began!