Goodbye, Bedford Falls (Radio Edit)

The train's headlight cuts through the night like a knife
I know that it's right to be joining the fight, to help my country survive
If only we could agree on a way of life
But I guess that's common… yeah, it is

It's been a month since the army came to Bedford Falls
They hung an air raid siren, began their hiring with some posters in the town hall
I said I'd never held a gun, didn't know much at all
They said that's common… much too common


Where would we be, refusing to fight?
A bombed-out village in the middle of the night
I've never left this town before
But goodbye Bedford Falls, hello war


Susie Morro has a job at the general store
There's a room in the back where her little boy Jack is playing soldiers at ten to four
She's got a husband on a foreign shore
Around here, that's common… much too common


Where would we be, refusing to fight?
A bombed-out village in the middle of the night
What did we do to deserve this cause?
We're just part of a race with some pretty big flaws
I'm not asking what it's all for
But goodbye Bedford Falls
Goodbye Bedford Falls, hello war


There's a message heading home to Bedford Falls
Susie's husband died while his beautiful bride taught their son to catch a ball
He won't remember his father much at all
But I guess that's common… much too common


Where would we be, refusing to fight?
A bombed-out village in the middle of the night
Will the world remember the lives we give
Or the endless pain of the ones who still live?
If ever there was a town worth dying for
It's home in Bedford Falls, good old Bedford Falls,
So goodbye Bedford Falls, hello war