Did you see them going off to fight?

Children of the barricade who didn't last the night

Did you see them lying where they died?

Someone used to cradle them and kiss them when they cried

Did you see them lying side by side?

Who will wake them?

No one ever will

No one ever told them that a summer day can kill

They were school boys, never held a gun

Fighting for a new world that would rise up like the sun

Where's that new world now the fighting's done?

Nothing changes

Nothing ever will

Every year another brat

Another mouth to fill

Same old story

What's the use of tears?

What's the use of praying if there's nobody who hears?

Turning, turning

Turning, turning, turning through the years

Turning, turning, turning through the years

Minutes into hours and the hours into years

Nothing changes, nothing ever can

Round and round the roundabout and back where you began

Round and round and back where you began