Karen Koltrane
(Original song by Stiff Little Fingers)
He turned up to get a job
To show he wasn't scared
All wrapped up in that army crap
He thought he'd be prepared
Well at the age of seventeen,
He was forced to choose
Now at the age of twenty-one
He's in catch-22
He turned up for just three years
It seemed a small amount
But what they didn't tell him was
The first two didn't count
At the age of seventeen how was he to know?
That at the age of twenty-one
He'd still have more to go?
Tin soldier! He signed away his name!
Tin soldier! No chance of casual
He turned up to get a job
To show he wasn't scared
All wrapped up in that army crap
He thought he'd be prepared
Well at the age of seventeen,
He was forced to choose
Now at the age of twenty-one
He's in catch-22
He turned up for just three years
It seemed a small amount
But what they didn't tell him was
The first two didn't count
At the age of seventeen how was he to know?
That at the age of twenty-one
He'd still have more to go?
Tin soldier! He signed away his name!
Tin soldier! No chance of casual
Tears, Hope and Hate
Outside the night
You lie behind
A glassy cold eye
Inner war streams into your dreams
War of senses
Still pursued, still desperate,
No chance to escape
Where is the dawn, forgotten sun
Nobody cares
Chorus:
You want to fly out of your mind
To set free your other life
Stonedream reminds you
Of presence of the past
Still with you like an unwelcome child
Awaiting the hard night
You go on the bed
Your nightmare is so real
So close to your life
Chorus:
You want to fly out of your mind
To set free your other life
Stonedream is here to bring the pain
Why do the dreams so hurt?
Repeat Chorus