Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Where Duty Calls, artist - Patti Smith. Date of issue: 05.07.2015
Song language: English
Where Duty Calls |
| In a room in Lebanon |
| They silently slept |
| They were dreaming crazy dreams |
| In a foreign alphabet |
| Lucky young boys |
| Cross on the main |
| The driver was approaching |
| The American zone |
| The waving of hands |
| The tiniest train |
| They never dreamed |
| They’d never wake again |
| Voice of the Swarm |
| We follow we fall |
| Some kneel for priests |
| Some wail at walls |
| Flag on a match head |
| God or the law |
| And they’ll all go together |
| Where duty calls |
| United children |
| Child of Iran |
| Parallel prayers |
| Baseball Koran |
| I’ll protect mama |
| I’ll lie awake |
| I’ll die for Allah |
| In a holy war |
| I’ll be a ranger |
| I’ll guard the streams |
| I’ll be a soldier |
| A sleeping marine |
| In the heart of the ancient |
| Ali smiles |
| In the soul of the desert |
| The sun blooms awake |
| Into the glare of all our little wars |
| Who pray to return to salute |
| The coming and dying of the moon |
| Oh sleeping sun |
| Assassin in prayer |
| Laid a compass deep |
| Exploding dawn |
| And himself as well |
| Their eyes for his eyes |
| Their breath for his breath |
| All to his end |
| And a room in Lebanon |
| Dust of scenes |
| Erase and blend |
| May the blanket of kings |
| Cover them and him |
| Forgive them Father |
| They know not what they do |
| From the vast portals |
| Of their consciousness |
| They’re calling to you |
| -This was written in memory of those who lost their lives in the |
| Destruction of the First Battalion, 8th Marine Headquarters, Beirut, October 23, |
| 1983. Two hundred and forty-one marines, sailors, and |
| Soldiers on a peacekeeping mission perished with their assassin |