Name: Coming To Your Town
Channel: Tom Ward, Francois Nolte
Description: "Coming To Your Town" is a song by Tom Ward. Written before the Gulf War started. Now it hits a little too close to home.

Coming To Your Town

Tom Ward

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Written before the Gulf War started. Now it hits a little too close to home.

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Tom Ward

I'm an amateur lyric writer who has been posting my lyrics on various songwriter boards for the past few years. Every now and then someone offers to put music to one of my lyrics. Since I don't sing or play any instruments these collaborations are the only way my work can be heard. This is a collection of some of these songs. You'll see they are in a couple of different genres.

Song Info

Genre

Rock • Classic Rock

Charts

#2,261 in subgenre Peak #38

Charts

Peak #422

Author

Tom Ward, Francois Nolte

Rights

2002 Tom Ward, Francois Nolte

Uploaded

December 10, 2004

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.1 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00

Story behind the song

This one is a good example of an internet collaboration.  I live in the US, the singer and creator of the music lives in South Africa.  The other musicians live in the US, Canada and Bulgaria.
None of us has ever met in person.

Lyrics

Coming to Your Town

Windswept desert beckons silently 
Where ancient cities were first born
War torn people all await their reckoning
For sins that are not their own

Young children kick around a weathered ball
Their wary mothers watch the sky
Calm is broken by the siren’s call  
Now some of the innocents must die
... some of the innocents must die

Familiar clouds are gathering
The dogs begin to howl
Sharpened sabers rattling  
They’re coming to your town
... they’re coming to your town

Emerald lawns line quiet streets
Confusion fills the air
Change has come to the land of the free 
As each day brings new fears

Familiar clouds are gathering
The dogs begin to howl
Sharpened sabers rattling
They’re coming to your town
... they’re coming to your town

In market stalls and shopping malls
From Baghdad to D.C.
Leaders make decisions
That target your destiny

They’re coming to your town
They’re coming to your town

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