Hello Hans

[Verse 1]
Well, hello, Hans
I was passing so I stopped to say hello
You don't know me
And there's no reason now why you should ever know
You died here
In some prison camp, conditions weren't too bad
Was it a wound, Hans
Or maybe the four walls sent you mad?

[Verse 2]
You were twenty
That's what it says upon the stone
I'm trying to imagine
What it's like to die all alone
At twenty
Before you've had a chance to be half-grown
I was passing
So I stopped to say hello

[Verse 3]
Can you see the child, Hans
The little girl who laughs upon your grave
Not yours, Hans
Not the ones you went to war to save
See her father
He proudly picks her up and sits her down
On your tombstone
To take photographs that he can show around

[Verse 4]
He was a young boy
At the very moment that you died
Maybe you had a little child
To walk proudly by your side
Or a young wife
Who tried so very hard, but still she cried
Can you see
The little girl laugh on your grave?

[Verse 5]
So goodbye, Hans
I'll maybe come again some other time
Because somehow
That grave that's yours could easily be mine
You see, there's wars, Hans
Men are trained to fight each other still
It goes on, Hans
It always has, it seems it always will

[Verse 6]
So, I must go now
The young men milling 'round are making so much noise
And as you remember
When they're together boys will always just be boys
Unlike you, Hans
They've never been a country's broken toys
So, goodbye
I'll maybe come again some other time