Bring the Boys Home
Bring the Boys Home: A Heartfelt Plea for Reuniting Families
Lyrics
Fathers are pleading
Fathers are desperately making requests or appeals.
Lovers are all alone
Partners or significant others are feeling isolated and abandoned.
Mothers are praying
Mothers are earnestly communicating with a higher power through prayer.
Send our sons back home (tell 'em 'bout it)
Asking for the safe return of their sons from war.
You marched them away
Refers to the act of sending soldiers away to battle.
Yes, you did now
Acknowledgment of the action taken (sending soldiers away).
On ships and planes
Sending soldiers via various modes of transportation to the war zone.
To the senseless war
Going to fight in a war that seems without purpose or reason.
Facing death in vain
Facing the risk of death without a meaningful cause.
Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive)
Repeated plea to bring the soldiers back home alive.
Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive)
-Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive)
-Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive) (why don't you)
-Turn the ships around (everybody oh)
Urging to redirect the transportation vessels back home.
Lay your weapons down
Encouraging the cessation of fighting or conflict.
Can't you see 'em march across the sky
Highlighting the soldiers’ plight of trying to return home amidst adversity and danger.
All the soldiers that have died
-Tryin' to get home
-Can't you see them tryin' to get home?
-Tryin' to get home
-They're tryin' to get home
-Seesaw fire (tell 'em 'bout it
Describing the violence and casualties experienced in the battlefield.
On the battlefield
-Enough men have already
-Been wounded and killed
-Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive)
Repeated plea to bring soldiers back alive, questioning why this hasn’t happened.
Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive)
-Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive)
-Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive) (why don't you)
-Turn the ships around (everybody oh)
Reiterating the call to redirect transportation and stop fighting.
Lay your weapons down
-(Mothers, fathers and lovers, can't you see them)
Appeal to the emotions of mothers, fathers, and lovers to notice the soldiers’ struggle.
Ooh, ooh
Continued emphasis on soldiers’ efforts to return home, pleading for mercy and understanding.
Tryin' to get home
-Can't you see them tryin' to get home? (Have mercy)
-Ooh, ooh
-Tryin' to get home, tryin' to get home
-Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive)
Repeated plea to bring soldiers back alive, questioning the purpose of their absence.
Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive)
-Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive)
-Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive)
-What they doing over there, now (bring 'em back alive)
Raising questions about why soldiers are abroad when they are needed at home.
When we need them over here, now (bring 'em back alive)
-What they doing over there, now (bring 'em back alive)
-When we need them over here, now (bring 'em back alive)
-Bring 'em home, bring 'em home (bring 'em back alive)
Urgent call to bring soldiers back home safely and alive.
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home (bring 'em back alive)
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