Red Army Blues-The Waterboys

[ti:Red Army Blues] [ar:The Waterboys] [al:The Whole Of The Moon] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Red Army Blues - The Waterboys (水孩子) [01:26.24]When I left my home and my family [01:29.89]My mother said to me [01:33.36]"Son it's not how many Germans you kill that counts [01:37.19]It's how many people you set free " [01:40.57]So I packed my bags [01:43.05]Brushed my cap [01:44.76]Walked out into the world [01:46.82] [01:48.32]Seventeen years old [01:51.08]Never kissed a girl [01:54.70] [02:09.91]Took the train to Voronezh [02:12.48]That was as far as it would go [02:16.29]Changed my sacks for a uniform [02:19.60]Bit my lip against the snow [02:22.05] [02:23.30]I prayed for mother Russia [02:26.61]In the summer of '43 [02:29.66] [02:30.23]And as we drove the Germans back [02:33.11]I really believed [02:34.85]That God was listening to me [02:39.12] [02:52.33]We howled into Berlin [02:54.70]Tore the smoking buildings down [02:57.45] [02:58.46]Raised the red flag high [03:01.91]Burnt the reichstag brown [03:05.72]I saw my first American [03:08.66]And he looked a lot like me [03:12.34]He had the same kinda farmer's face [03:15.47]Said he'd come from some place called Hazzard Tennessee [03:21.52] [03:48.88]Then the war was over [03:51.38]My discharge papers came [03:54.25] [03:54.81]Me and twenty hundred others [03:58.13]Went to Stettiner for the train [04:00.69] [04:02.22]Kiev said the commissar [04:05.59]From there your own way home [04:09.27]But I never got to Kiev [04:12.41]We never came by home [04:16.56]Train went north to the Taiga [04:19.57]We were stripped and marched in file [04:23.20]Up the great siberian road [04:26.58]For miles and miles and miles and miles [04:30.48]Dressed in stripes and tatters [04:33.90]In a gulag left to die [04:36.65]All because Comrade Stalin was scared that [04:41.58]We'd become too westernized [04:48.19] [05:40.89]Used to love my country [05:45.56]Used to be so young [05:48.94]Used to believe that life was [05:52.22]The best song ever sung [05:55.77]I would have died for my country [05:58.71]In 1945 [06:01.96]But now only one thing remains [06:07.46] [06:08.89]But now only one thing remains [06:14.61] [06:15.76]But now only one thing remains [06:21.99] [06:22.54]But now only one thing remains [06:27.74]The brute will to survive