Suddenly, times are looking bleak And my head feels heavy And I'm begging you to run away You will never understand it I was gone before we landed Readily, I refuse to be I'll lie right where I stand Stand If I was a soldier in the Spanish Civil War Flying through the sky on my BA-64 Dropping my bombs and running for the door I was dead before your mother was born, oh Yeah, I was dead before they started the war Suddenly, I'm feeling weak And the past feels heavy 'Cause it's pulling me away And I'm trying to escape it But I don't think I can make it Steadily, I can fail to be A promise you deserve Deserve If I was a soldier in the Spanish Civil War Flying through the sky on my BA-64 Dropping my bombs and running for the door I was dead before your mother was born, oh Yeah, I was dead before they started the war