Each Small Candle

Roger Waters Roger Waters

Not the torturer will scare me
Nor the body's final fall
Nor the barrels of death's rifles
Nor the shadows on the wall
Nor the night when to the ground
The last dim star of pain, is held
But the blind indifference
Of a merciless unfeeling world

Lying in the burnt out shell
Of some Albanian farm
An old Babushka
Holds a crying baby in her arms
A soldier from the other side
A man of heart and pride
Breaks ranks, lays down his rifle
And kneels by her side

He binds her wounds
He gives her food
And calms the crying child
She gives him absolution then
Across the great divide
He picks his way back through the broken
China of her life
And there at the kerb
The samaritan Serb turns..
Turns and waves.. goodbye

And each small candle
Lights a corner of the dark...

  1. Mother
  2. Three Wishes
  3. Another Brick In The Wall (part 1)
  4. What God Wants, part III
  5. Brain Damage
  6. Another Brick in the wall (part 2)
  7. Each Small Candle
  8. Breathe
  9. Get Your Filthy Hand off my Desert
  10. Amused To Death
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