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The Send-Off
Classical
The Send-Off was released on September 6, 2019 by Sterling as a part of the album Peter Lindroth: The Wilfred Owen Songs
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Release DateSeptember 6, 2019
LabelSterling
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
John Erik Eleby
John Erik Eleby
Performer
Mats Jansson
Mats Jansson
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Peter Lindroth
Peter Lindroth
Composer

Lyrics

The Send-Off
Down the close, darkening lanes they sang their way
To the siding-shed,
And lined the train with faces grimly gay.
Their breasts were stuck all white with wreath and spray
As men’s are, dead.
Dull porters watched them, and a casual tramp
Stood staring hard,
Sorry to miss them from the upland camp.
Then, unmoved, signals nodded, and a lamp
Winked to the guard.
So secretly, like wrongs hushed-up, they went.
They were not ours:
We never heard to which front these were sent.
Nor there if they yet mock what women meant
Who gave them flowers.
Shall they return to beatings of great bells
In wild train-loads?
A few, a few, too few for drums and yells,
May creep back, silent, to still village wells
Up half-known roads.
Written by: Peter Lindroth
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