1939 Returning

1939 Returning - Pete Doherty

Captured clandestine

Crawled into the lights

He knew he was in for a shoeing

Just wasn't to be his night

Dragged out of the frozen rhine

For the motherland

And the third reich

A toeing's as good as a shoeing

When it's not to be your night your night

I'll tread carefully so carefully

Upon the drifting ice

Caught behind enemy lines

In nineteen thirty nine

For Germany he sacrificed his life

Caught behind enemy lines

There in nineteen thirty nine

Kids knee deep in rubble

London urchins grey with dust

Packed off ours in evacuations

To farmers' wives

Green and pleasant lives

Far from the doodlebugs

Nanna doll she still remember

Leaving town in wornout shoes

Now she's back out west in sheltered accommodations

Homes for the old where pills aren't the only blues

Tread carefully so carefully

Upon the drifting ice

Staring blank into the tv guide

In two thousand and nine

How it's hurting me I've only seen her twice

Since you went west for the second time

Since nineteen thirty nine

Thirty nine

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