The Moon lights up over the battlefield now,
With a blistering heat somehow,
Lifeless limp and broken hearts are dead,
They should have just stayed home instead,
Stayed alive.

Well the letter arrives and glistens a mother's eyes
She wonders where when and why
She could have tucked him in his bed
With a kiss on the cheek and his head
He'd still lie

Well the moon and the stars can't cast shadows on what is wrong
Well our boys are dead, they've been misled
Nothing more

The sun wakes up, brings sparkles in the morning light [bad word] her belly bows her head to cry
She lost him before they were wed
but he's there in her heart and her head
He'll stay alive

Oh the moon and the stars can't cast shadows on what is wrong
Well our boys are dead, they've been misled
Nothing more
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The moon lights up, over the battlefield now
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