The Music Box Lyrics - Ed Harcourt

The music box 

Is all that's left in the empty house 

Must've left it when they moved out 

In a hurry to flee the town 

Armoured tanks 

Broke through all of the soldier's ranks 

You can be sure they weren't shooting blanks 

From bodies laid out on the ground 

There's a song your father had sung 

When you were just knee high 

Now a soldier plays the same tune 

From the toy you left behind 

Something to remind you 

Something to remind you 

Burnt to black 

There's a face you don't recognise 

Just a doll with hollow eyes 

And a feeling you can't describe 

In factories 

Toys are made by the companies 

Who create our killing machines 

So the planet can rest at ease 

There's a story you had to hear 

When you couldn't sleep at all 

Now the pages are burning in some 

Sad unholy war 

Something to remind you 

Something to remind you 

Something to remind you 

The ones you left behind you 

Something to remind you 

Something to remind you 

Something to remind you 

The ones you left behind you 

The music box 

Plays a song that I used to love 

But now I can't remember what it was 

For my memory has faded