Roads To Moscow
Al Stewart

They crossed over the border the hour before dawn

Moving in lines through the day, most of our planes

Were destroyed on the ground where they lay waiting

For orders we held in the wood, word from the front never came


By evening the sound of the gunfire was miles away

Ah, softly we move through the shadows, slip away

Through the trees crossing their lines in the mists in

The fields on our hands and our knees and all that I ever was able to see


The fire in the air glowing red silhouetting the smoke on the breeze

All summer they drove us back through the Ukraine

Smolensk and Viyasma soon fell, by autumn we stood

With our backs to the town of Orel


Closer and closer to Moscow they come, riding the wind like a bell

General Guderian stands at the crest of the hill, winter brought

With her the rains, oceans of mud filled the roads gluing

The tracks of their tanks to the ground while the sky filled with snow


And all that I ever was able to see the fire in the air

Glowing red silhouetting the snow on the breeze

In the footsteps of Napoleon the shadow figures

Stagger through the winter falling back before the gates of Moscow

Standing in the wings like an avenger


And far away behind their lines the partisans are stirring in the forest

Coming unexpectedly upon their outposts, growing like a promise

You'll never know, you'll never know

Which way to turn, which way to look, you'll never see us


As we're stealing through the blackness of the night

You'll never know, you'll never hear us

And the evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming

The morning road leads to Stalingrad, and the sky is softly humming


Two broken Tigers on fire in the night flicker

Their souls to the wind, we wait in the lines for the final

Approach to begin, it's been almost four years that

I've carried a gun at home it'll almost be spring


The flames of the Tigers are lighting the road to Berlin

Ah, quickly we move through the ruins that bow to the ground

The old men and children they send out to face us

They can't slow us down and all that I ever was able to see


The eyes of the city are opening now it's the end of the dream

I'm coming home, I'm coming home now you can taste

It in the wind, the war is over and I listen to the clicking

Of the train wheels as we roll across the border


And now they ask me of the time that I was caught

Behind their lines and taken prisoner

They only held me for a day, a lucky break, I say

They turn and listen closer, I'll never know, I'll never know


Why I was taken from the line and all the others?

To board a special train and journey deep into the

Heart of holy Russia and it's cold and damp in the transit camp

And the air is still and sullen and the pale sun of October


Whispers the snow will soon be coming

And I wonder when I'll be home again

And the morning answers never and the evening sighs

And the steely Russian skies go on forever


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