What Did You Do In The War, Dad?

What Did You Do in the War, Dad ?
Dad, what did you do in the war? 
Something to answer for? 
You say too young I am to know 

Dad, I've heard you cry at night 
Mournful and desperate blight 
Where did you learn that song you sing 

"War is in me! I was the war! 
And your praying brings back the suffering 
No, please, don't start to cry 
I only pray you'll never know 
The things I see every time I close my eyes 
Angels still have faces" 

What did you do in the war, dad, tell me 
Why can't you smile when the children sing 
Did the wages of war cut your soaring wings 
And your soul is now torn, unlike mine 
Do you fear yesterday will in someway 
Define the life of your child? 

Dad, I know what you did in the war 
Deeds devils would abhor 
Did you fulfil the oath you swore? 

Dad, did you do it for me? 
Their blood for my life to live 
In the hollow without reprieve, without you 

"War is in me! I am the war! 
Don't you force me to live the nightmare again! 
I'm sorry 
Please, don't make my cry 
My son, you never ever want to know 
How when guarding your sleep serene I hear 
The silence of the children who sang" 

Far and beyond the stars there's 
place where all the love, 
All the goodness we could have still resides 
But we choose life away from the light 
You can find ghosts of loss in the gaze of your 
Beautiful child