Common Ground

Song Common Ground
Artist IQ
Album Nomzamo

Lyrics

Here we are
Alive and free
Far away in time from our darkest day
That took our young and brave
From the cradle to the grave 70 years ago on
July one 1916 on the
Somme The enemies had never seen fighting like this before
Such a simple plan--
How could any german man survive through that ordeal?
Company 'A' to
Company 'B' "Morale is high here, sir, but I don't think it's safe to go"
Company 'A' from
Company 'B' "Mister you have your orders and you must obey"
So the first line rose, and the first line fell
And a poet who survived later wrote about
A "Sunlit vision of Hell"
And "Larks singing"
Because after all it's just another summer's day in
France And the
Tommies on the
Somme sang "We are fighting to turn no-man's land into a common ground"
A common ground