Another track from my WW1 album (currently being finished).
This was inspired after listening to the (now sadly late) Harry Patch who, although he was not there at the end of the was (having been injured), recounted how friends of his who were there when "the guns fell silent" felt no joy, no elation as they climbed out of the trenches and look at the utter devastation and the bodies of their comrades felt nothing but utter sadness and could not understand why it could not have been stopped 4 years before.
Harry did not talk about the war until he reached 100 and I recall that this futility of it all was his lasting memory. He also mentioned how many found it hard to simply walk away from 4 years of what had become "normal" life and were expected to "carry on as if nothing had happened".
I sat down, with the thoughts of these poor sods and "Aftermath" just "happened".
It's not perfect but, it took as long to record as it did to write and I refuse to re-record it (but would love someone to score it for me).
If I never write anything again - in my humble opinion, I did this - it just came from somewhere deep in my soul - a place I didn't even realise existed.
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