HARRY PATCH
The battle lasted ninety days
At least that's what history will say
But to me it lasted ninety years
Into my memory etched
Never will it disappear
I was just nineteen
When I became part of the war machine
I was just nineteen
When I became part of the war machine
No other man alive
Has ever seen what I have seen
Two world wars
A man on the moon
The fall of the Wall
On a November afternoon
Just how fast things can change...
I never would have believed it
If not for having seen it
Yet what has really changed?
Once I thought I knew
But I'm not so sure anymore
An entire century...
I've lived it and breathed it
Until this fatal final parting bow
It is with this last breath
That I must express
How I've become
Decidedly undecided now
He was just nineteen
When he became part of the war machine
He was just nineteen
When he became part of the war machine