Oh For A Light (In These Dark Days)

from Roomful Of Light by Alan Prosser

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lyrics

A soldier wonders why he's under foreign sky
And in a war he doesn't understand
A single tattered photo from a pocket near his heart
Finds it's way, once more, into his hand
If he could blend with the colours, become the green and grey
And flow like the river through the trees
He fights back the pain and wonders once again
How long will my country need me?
Chorus;
Oh Oh... Oh for a light in these dark days
Oh for a star to guide them home
I pray to the winds to help them
Pray to the winds to save them all
Oh for a light in these dark days

Maria thinks of her son, how bitter he's become
Since his father was killed in the war
The apple of her eye is out there running wild
It rages in her like a perfect storm
She sits on the porch, her youngest on her knee
And wonders if she'd waiting in vain
she longs to be flying past the setting sun
To kiss his face and bring him home again
Chorus;

Maria puts down her child and goes back inside
To her second eldest who is crying
She wipes away his tears and tries to quell the fear
That she's raising him to kill or die trying
Chorus;

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from Roomful Of Light, track released October 20, 2017

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Alan Prosser Canterbury, UK

5/4 AP is a solo album in 5 time

Roomful of Light is a collaboration with
Al Clarke (A great harp player from the Stour Delta)

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Makerfield

Mar 2022
5/4 AP

Oct 2018
Roomful Of Light

Oct 2017

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