Joel Billy - Leningrad lyrics

Viktor was born in the spring of '44<br>And never saw his father anymore<br>A child of sacrifice, a child of war<br>Another son who never had a father after leningrad<br><br>Went off to school and learned to serve the state<br>Followed the rules and drank his vodka straight<br>The only way to live was drown the hate<br>A russian life was very sad<br>And such was life in leningrad<br><br>I was born in '49<br>A cold war kid in mccarthy time<br>Stop 'em at the 38th parallel<br>Blast those yellow reds to hell<br>And cold war kids were hard to kill<br>Under their desk in an air raid drill<br>Haven't they heard we won the war<br>What do they keep on fighting for? <br><br>Viktor was sent to some red army town<br>Served out his time, became a circus clown<br>The greatest happiness he'd ever found<br>Was making russian children glad<br>And children lived in leningrad<br><br>But children lived in levittown<br>And hid in the shelters underground<br>Until the soviets turned their ships around<br>And tore the cuban missiles down<br>And in that bright october sun<br>We knew our childhood days were done<br>And I watched my friends go off to war<br>What do they keep on fighting for? <br><br>And so my child and I came to this place<br>To meet him eye to eye and face to face<br>He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced<br>We never knew what friends we had<br>Until we came to leningrad