Did you see them going off to fight?
Children of the barricade that didn't last the night.
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?
Who will wake them?
No one ever will.
No one ever told them that a summer day can kill.
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.
Rounding round the roundabout and back where you began.
Round and round and back where you began!