Joan Baez La Colombe -- The Dove Lyrics:
Why all these bugles crying
For squads of young men drilled
To kill and to be killed
Stood waiting by the train?

Why the orders loud and hoarse
Why the engine's groaning cough
As it strains to drag us off
Into the holocaust?

Why crowds who sing and cry
And shout and fling us flowers
And trade their right for ours
To murder and to die?

[Chorus]
The dove has torn her wing
So no more songs of love
We are not here to sing
We're here to kill the dove

Why has this moment come
When childhood has to die
When hope shrinks to a sigh
And speech into a drum?

Why are they pale and still
Young boys trained overnight
Conscripts forced to fight
And dressed in gray to kill?

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These rain clouds massing tight
This trainload battle-bound
This moving burial ground
Sent thundering toward the night

[Chorus]

Why statues towering brave
Above the last defeat?
Old words and lies repeat
Across a new made grave

Why the same stillbirth
That victory always brought
These hours of glory bought
By men with mouths of earth?

Dead ash without a spark
Where cities used to be
For guns probe every light
And crush it into dark

[Chorus]

And why your face undone
with jagged lines of tears
That gave in those first years
All the peace I ever won?

Your body in the gloom
The platform fading back
Your shadow on the track
A flower on a tomb

And why these days ahead
When I must let you cry
And live prepared to die
As if our love were dead?

[Chorus]
Lyrics: La Colombe -- The Dove, Joan Baez [end]