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Secret War

from A Crossword War by Kevin Adams

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about

Many of the people who worked at BP took the secret of what they did there to their graves.

lyrics

We’re in this little town in Buckinghamshire,
We’ve worked so hard since we arrived here,
And though we’re not allowed to tell you what we do here,
Maybe the world will know some day.

This is a secret war, fought out along the airwaves
In streams of dots and dashes to the headphones of the listeners
As they scribble random letters in their endless blocks of five.

This is a crossword war, fought out on scraps of paper
To the sharpening of pencils, with our ashtrays overflowing,
As we scrabble for admittance in an adamantine wall.

I know I’m not in uniform, I know that you despise me.
I see your eyes dismiss me, but I’m sworn to tell you absolutely nothing.

This is a thinker’s war to which I’ve been recruited,
So they’ll never let me risk it in a bomber over Europe,
Or a slit trench in the desert, or a North Atlantic gale.

My parents think that I’m shirking, they’d like some stirring stories
To pass on to the neighbours, but I’m sworn to tell them absolutely nothing.

It’s been a long hard war, and though I long to tell them
Of my special contribution, I tell my wife and daughter
That I’m only pushing paper round a War Department desk.

Mine is a thinker’s war, a crossword war, a secret war.

credits

from A Crossword War, released July 15, 2018
Words & music: Kevin Adams

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Kevin Adams Milton Keynes, UK

Blending traditional folk music with a love of other genres- classical, jazz, folk-rock, prog-rock, pop… music, music, music…

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