Paekakariki Beach Lyrics - New Model Army

I saw you walking away from the battlefield 

Through the clearing smoke to the other side 

Lay down your weary head 

And gazing up two ocean birds are wheeling, turning 

Paekakariki Beach on the other side 

By the green of the hills and the rolling tide 

I lay down in the ashen sand 

And high above the ocean birds 

were wheeling, turning, circling, flying 

And you have seen too much 

Too many causes lost and won 

The wild desires all drowned in the seven seas 

And so we walk away from the battlefield 

Through the clearing smoke to the other side 

Lay down in the morning sun 

and high above the ocean birds are 

wheeling, turning, circling, flying...