Roger Waters - Each Small Candle (In The Flesh Live Tour 2000)

Personnel:

Roger Waters Bass guitar, acoustic & electric guitar, lead vocals.

Doyle Bramhall II Guitars, vocals.

Andy Fairweather Low Guitars, bass guitar, vocals.

Snowy White Guitars.

Andy Wallace Keyboards, Hammond organ.

Jon Carin Keyboards, lap steel, programming, acoustic guitar, vocals.

Katie Kissoon Vocals.

Susannah Melvoin Vocals.

P. P. Arnold Vocals.

Graham Broad Drums, percussion.

Norbert Stachel Saxophones.

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Each Small Candle (Waters) - lyrics:

Not the torturer will scare me

Nor the body's final fall

Nor the barrels of death's rifles

Nor the shadows on the wall

Nor the night when to the ground

The last dim star of pain, is held

But the blind indifference

Of a merciless unfeeling world

Lying in the burnt out shell

Of some Albanian farm

An old Babushka

Holds a crying baby in her arms

A soldier from the other side

A man of heart and pride

Breaks ranks, lays down his rifle

And kneels by her side

He binds her wounds

He gives her food

And calms the crying child

She gives him absolution then

Across the great divide

He picks his way back through the broken

China of her life

And there at the kerb

The samaritan Serb turns..

Turns and waves.. goodbye

And each small candle

Lights a corner of the dark...