Steel on the Strings

It feels like a haze of confusion I can't tell who's winning or losing I don't know I don't know Sometimes I don't see the difference Between dying and living I don't know I don't know But even through this up and down I'll always be around and round 'Cause I love fire in the rain And I love smiling on the train And I love the feeling when the pill is kicking in And I love the sound of the steel on the strings Mama just lost her father This fighting got harder and harder Till he let go He let go At just 19, he was a soldier A rifle was slung on his shoulder And he left home He left home A Libyan port he defended The Rats of Tobruk don't surrender Never spoke of it to anyone 97 times around the sun 'Cause he loved greeting every day And he loved a table tennis game And when he was eighty, he would play me and he'd win And he loved the sound Of a trumpet in the wind 'Cause I love fire in the rain And I love smiling on the train And I love the feeling when the pill is kicking in And I love the sound of the steel on the strings Yeah, I love the sound of the steel on the strings