red army blues

• sovyet kizil ordu mar$inin melodileri kullanilarak yapilmi$ the waterboys $arkisi..dinler dinlemez tuyleri diken diken eder..
• bu parcada kullanilan asil rus melodisi, unlu ve muhte$em lungo la strada'dir.
• ilgili mars icin (bkz: song of the plains)
• (bkz: the dead flag blues)
• (bkz: polyuşko pole)
• dinlendiğinde bünyede orgazmik bir etki yaşatan parçadır. aksini söyleyenlerin daha önceki cinsel hayatlarını sorgulaması gerekir.
• muhtesem bir hikayedir. sozleri cok sey anlatir. melodisi mukemmeldir.
  
  when ı left my home and my family
  my mother said to me
  "son, it's not how many germans you kill that counts
  ıt's how many people you set free"
  
  so ı packed my bags, brushed my cap
  walked out into the world
  seventeen years old
  never kissed a girl
  
  took the train to voronezh
  that was as far as it would go
  changed my sacks for a uniform
  bit my lip against the snow
  
  ı prayed for mother russia
  ın the summer of '43
  and as we drove the germans back
  ı really believed that god was listening to me
  
  we howled into berlin
  tore the smoking buildings down
  raised the red flag high
  burnt the reichstag brown
  
  ı saw my first american
  and he looked a lot like me
  he had the same kinda farmer's face
  said he'd come from some place called hazard, tennessee
  
  then the war was over
  my discharge papers came
  me and twenty hundred others
  went to stettiner for the train
  
  kiev, said the commissar
  there your own way home
  ı never got to kiev
  we never came by home
  
  train went north to the taiga
  we were stripped and marched in file
  up the great siberian road
  for miles and miles and miles and miles
  
  dressed in stripes and tatters
  ın a gulag left to die
  all because comrade stalin was scared that
  we'd become too westernized
  
  used to love my country
  used to be so young
  used to believe that life was
  the best song ever sung
  
  ı would have died for my country
  ın 1945
  but now only one thing remains
  but now only one thing remains
  but now only one thing remains
  but now only one thing remains
  the brute will to survive
• mike scott tüyleri diken diken eden bu şarkıyla alakalı yıllar sonra şu sözleri söylemiş:
  
  "years after this song was released i received a letter from a russian man who said every word of the song was true except the line "it's not how many germans you kill that counts, it's how many people you set free"(first verse). he told me "people went to the war to kill germans". i realize that when i wrote the song i allowed youthful idealism to distort the sense and truth of the song with an out of context pacifist sentiment. i have now changed it."
  
  şurda görüleceği üzere mike scott sözleri gerçekten de değiştirmiştir.