[ti:Some Mother's Son] [ar:The Kinks] [al:Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Some Mother's Son - The Kinks [00:04.33]Lyrics by:Julian Mitchell [00:08.66]Composed by:Raymond Douglas Davies [00:12.99]Some mother's son lies in a field [00:19.25]Someone has killed some mother's son today [00:25.45]Head blown up by some soldier's gun [00:31.53]While all the mothers stand and wait [00:37.37]Some mother's son ain't coming home today [00:43.49]Some mothers son ain't got no grave [00:49.54]Two soldiers fighting in a trench [00:55.47]One soldier glances up to see the sun [01:01.33]And dreams of games he played when he was young [01:07.10]And then his friend calls out his name [01:13.23]It stops his dream and as he turns his head [01:18.97]A second later he is dead [01:27.68]Some mother's son lies in a field [01:33.53]Back home they put his picture in a frame [01:39.29]But all dead soldiers look the same [01:45.36]While all the parents stand and wait [01:51.12]To meet their children coming home from school [01:57.00]Some mother's son is lying dead [02:04.77]Somewhere someone is crying [02:10.23]Someone is trying to be so brave [02:16.59]But still the world keeps turning [02:21.69]Though all the children have gone away [02:29.14]Some mother's son lies in a field [02:35.39]But in his mother's eyes he looks the same [02:41.31]As on the day he went away [02:47.19]They put his picture on the wall [02:53.22]They put flowers in the picture frame [02:59.07]Some mothers memory remains