They Fell-Charles Aznavour

[00:13.98]They fell that year they vanished [00:18.87]From the earth [00:21.00]Never knowing the cause [00:23.97]Or what laws the offended [00:28.55]The women few as well [00:30.71]And the babies they tendered [00:34.66]Left to die left to cry [00:37.28]All condemned by their birth [00:40.55]They fell like rain [00:43.33]Across the thirsty land [00:46.42]In their heart they were slain [00:49.45]In their god still believing [00:53.50]All their pity and pain [00:55.89]In that season of grieving [00:59.67]All in vain all in vain [01:02.32]Just for one helping hand [01:05.98]For no one heard their prayers [01:08.68]In a world bent on pleasure [01:11.93]From others people care [01:14.85]They simply closed their eyes [01:17.94]They create allot of sound [01:21.48]In jazz and right time measure [01:24.81]The trumpets screamed till dawn [01:27.41]To drown the children's cries [01:30.52]They fell like leaves [01:34.12]Its people its prime [01:37.19]Simple man kindly man [01:40.04]And no one new his crime [01:43.24]The became in that hour [01:46.03]Like the small desert flower [01:49.45]Simply covered by the silent wind [01:52.84]In sands of time [02:02.43]They fell that year [02:05.66]Before a cruel foe [02:08.56]They had little to give [02:11.64]But their lives and their passion [02:15.83]And their longing to live [02:18.06]In their way [02:19.64]In their fashion [02:21.99]So their harvest can [02:23.87]Thrive their children can grow [02:27.87]They fell like flies [02:30.52]Their eyes still full of sound [02:33.60]Like a dove its flight [02:36.86]In the path of rifle [02:40.30]That fall down were it might [02:43.21]That holds on with its might [02:45.14]As if death were a trifle [02:46.97]And to bring to an end [02:49.44]A life barely begun [02:53.54]And I am of that race [02:56.11]Who die in unknown places [02:59.16]Who perished in their pride [03:02.72]Whose blood in rivers ran [03:05.90]In agony and fright [03:08.23]With courage on their faces [03:11.25]They went in to the night [03:13.82]That waits for every man [03:17.16]They fell like tears [03:20.42]And never new what for [03:23.91]In that summer of strife [03:26.93]Of massacre and war [03:29.66]Their only crime was life [03:32.75]There only guilt was fear [03:36.37]The children of armenia [03:39.19]Nothing less nothing more [03:51.23]