They Fell (Ils sont tombés)-Charles Aznavour

[ti:They Fell (Ils sont tombés)] [ar:Charles Aznavour] [al:Charles Aznavour chante en anglais - Les meilleurs moments (Remastered 2014)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]They Fell (Ils sont tombés) - Charles Aznavour [00:14.07]They fell that year they vanished [00:18.82]From the earth [00:20.44] [00:21.12]Never knowing the cause [00:23.89]Or what laws they offended [00:27.31] [00:28.70]The women few as well [00:30.77]And the babies they tendered [00:33.55] [00:34.82]Left to dry left to cry [00:37.39]All condemned by their birth [00:39.74] [00:40.61]They fell like rain [00:43.29]Across the thirsty land [00:45.96] [00:46.48]In their heart they were slain [00:49.46]In their God still believing [00:53.00] [00:53.63]All their pity and pain [00:55.42] [00:56.07]In that season of grieving [00:58.90] [00:59.90]All in vain all in vain [01:02.46]Just for one helping hand [01:05.35] [01:06.14]For no one heard their prayers [01:08.33] [01:08.88]In a world bent on pleasure [01:11.08] [01:12.16]From others people care [01:14.24] [01:14.85]They simply closed their eyes [01:18.28]They create allot of sound [01:21.57]In jazz and right time measure [01:24.72]The trumpets screamed till dawn [01:27.38]To drown the children's cries [01:30.53]They fell like leaves [01:34.24]Its people in its prime [01:37.05]Simple man kindly man [01:40.21]And no one new his crime [01:43.28]The became in that hour [01:46.05]Like the small desert flower [01:49.55]Showing covered by the silent wind [01:52.77]In sands of time [01:56.19] [02:02.53]They fell that year [02:05.72]Before a cruel foe [02:08.70]They had little to give [02:11.80]But their lives and their passion [02:14.82] [02:15.90]And their longing to live [02:18.11]In their way [02:19.82]In their fashion [02:21.50] [02:22.18]So their harvest can [02:23.97]Thrive and their children could grow [02:27.09] [02:27.68]They fell like flies [02:30.66]Their eyes still full of sound [02:33.34] [02:33.88]Like a dove its flight [02:36.40] [02:37.00]In the path of rifle [02:40.30]That fall down were it might [02:42.53] [02:43.11]As if death were a trifle [02:45.92] [02:47.16]And to bring to an end [02:49.47]A life barely begun [02:52.16] [02:53.42]And I am of that race [02:55.70]Who die in unknown places [02:59.15]Who perished in their pride [03:01.94]Whose blood in rivers ran [03:05.21]In agony and fright [03:08.39]With courage on their faces [03:11.47]They went in to the night [03:14.30]That waits for every man [03:17.40]They fell like tears [03:20.53]And never new what for [03:22.74] [03:23.88]In that summer of strife [03:26.05] [03:27.14]Of massacre and war [03:29.78]Their only crime was life [03:32.89]There only guilt was fear [03:36.52]The children of armenia [03:39.29]Nothing less nothing more