Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Les Misérables
Canonical path: /les-miserables/turning
Related lyric paths: 6
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Turning
Read Turning lyrics by Les Misérables on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Turning
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Woman one
Did you see them
Going off to fight?
Woman two
Children of the barricade
Who didn't last the night?
Woman three
They were schoolboys
Never held a gun...
Fighting for a new world
That would rise up like the sun.
Woman four
Where's that new world now the fighting's done?
Woman five
Who will wake them?
Woman six
No one ever will.
Woman seven
No one ever told them
That a summer day can kill.
Woman eight
Same old story. What's the use of tears?
Woman nine
What's the use of praying if there's nobody who hears?
All
Turning, turning, turning, turning, turning
Through the years.
Turning, turning, turning through the years
Minutes into hours and the hours into years.
Nothing changes. Nothing ever can
Round about the round about and back where you began.
Round and round and back where you began!
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Les Misérables performs "Turning", and this lyric page sits inside the Les Misérables catalog on LyroVerse.
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Yes. The related section below points to At The Barricade and A Heart Full Of Love with a short reason for opening each page next.
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