Lyrics

They tell us it's ending-
Victory any day
But they want you to go there and into harm's way
While I wait here and worry
Back home safe and secure
There's a burning question that I'll have to endure
What if you're the last to die on the last day of the war?

When the guns fall silent
And the fighting's done
When they tell us it's over and the war is won
And the soldiers return from the foreign shore
I don't want to be waiting in vain at the door
I don't want to know you were the last to die on the last day of the war

What will it prove?
What will it be for?
If you're the last to die on the last day of the war?

When the war is a memory left in the past
And the dough boys and generals come home at last
And the hawks are grounded and the white doves soar
Over fields of crosses on the distant shore
I don't want to know you were the last to die on the last day of the war