Echoes of Our Times - Shakin' Stevens

When your country needed you

You did what you had to do

They said never we’d go through this again

Just one bullet was the start

And it ripped away the heart

A generation torn apart with the pain

We will always remember

The sacrifice you made to hold the line

We will always remember

Within our hearts these echoes of our times

You were young and you were brave

Charging on wave after wave

And your precious lives you gave under fire

Shells were raining from the sky

Still you joined the battle cry

You were fit enough to die, on the wire

We will always remember

The sacrifice you made to hold the line

We will always remember

Within our hearts these echoes of our times

And if truth we had to tell

We only stand because you fell

In the trenches of your hell you could see

You could see that it was right

That you had to stand and fight

So that good would still survive

And we’d stay free

We will always remember

The sacrifice you made to hold the line

We will always remember

Within our hearts these echoes of our times

Echoes of our times