Guillotine's Release - Dougie MacLean

I know you mean them well

This game of life we’re playing

Is half in heaven half in hell

And your ideals are to be envied

Like some little child’s dream

They crash around my aching head

Like rocks tumbling down a stream

You’re the soldier of freedom

And you’re the fighter for peace

But you’d put the gun into my hand

And signal up the guillotine’s release

There’s been a million years of troubles

And there’ll be a million more

And a million years of history

Well, you just cannot ignore

And I wish I had your confidence

In our own sweet human kind

But your words are just the ashes

Of what all the others left behind

You’re the soldier of freedom

And you’re the fighter for peace

But you’d put the gun into my hand

And signal up the guillotine’s release

So you can sing to me of bravery

Sacrifice and pain

And you know I’ll listen carefully

'Cause my heart feels just the same

But your way it’s like the trundle

Of a worn and wooden wheel

And your words are made from speeches

Your own innocence conceals

You’re the soldier of freedom

And you’re the fighter for peace

But you’d put the gun into my hand

And signal up the guillotine’s release

So you can say I’m tired

You can say I am no use

You can say my courage fails me

But that’s only half the truth

It’s love we all are needing

We’ve been fighting for too long

Now I’ll lay down my weary pen

And I will kindly move along

You’re the soldier of freedom

And you’re the fighter for peace

But you’d put the gun into my hand

And signal up the guillotine’s release