Turning Lyrics - Singles - Alain Boublil

WOMAN ONE 

Did you see them 

Going off to fight? 

WOMAN TWO 

Children of the barricade 

Who didn't last the night? 

WOMAN THREE 

Did you see them 

Lying where they died? 

Someone used to cradle them 

And kiss them when they cried. 

WOMAN FOUR 

Did you see them lying side by side? 

WOMAN FIVE 

Who will wake them? 

WOMAN SIX 

No one ever will. 

WOMAN TWO 

No one ever told them 

That a summer day can kill. 

WOMAN SEVEN 

They were schoolboys 

Never held a gun... 

Fighting for a new world 

That would rise up like the sun. 

WOMAN THREE 

Where's that new world now the fighting's done? 

WOMAN FOUR 

Nothing changes. 

WOMAN SEVEN 

Nothing ever will. 

WOMAN EIGHT 

Every year another brat, another mouth to fill. 

WOMAN SEVEN 

Same old story. What's the use of tears? 

WOMAN FIVE 

What's the use of praying if there's nobody who hears? 

ALL 

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 

Round about the roundabout and back where you began. 

Round and round and back where you began!