I came across this recording whilst researching Kokoda for my upcoming song posts in this thread.
David is a Melbourne singer-songwriter and who wrote this poignant song in 2007, after watching the film, KOKODA.

WAR

David Mooney

Why do we have to fight; there’s no good in war
All of our children, and many to go on before,

Speaking out loud, in one mouth, telling the truth to closed doors
Is there anyone listening, anyone listening at all?

But it’s quiet tonight, when I close my eyes, it’s quiet all around
Will I wake up at light, will I open my eyes
Will I be in safer ground?

When you fall, some will die, tell me there’s some good in war
Yet the battle’s not over and we gather the wounded and dying,

I have a family, so does he, we should be home very soon
I keep sending those letters, but it’s never the same without you.

But it’s quiet tonight, when I close my eyes, it’s quiet all around
Will I wake up at light, will I open my eyes
Will I be in safer ground?

They say it’s over, we can go home, how can a dead man be free?
And the ones that return have their memories burn in their mind.

But it’s so quiet tonight, when I close my eyes, it’s quiet all around
Will I wake up at light, will I open my eyes
Will I be in safer ground?

And it’s quiet tonight, when I close my eyes, it’s so quiet all around
Will I wake up at light, will I open my eyes
Will I be in safer ground?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTnr6qkoEi8&t=4s     David Mooney


KOKODA – the movie – (aka KOKODA : 39th Battalion) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokoda_(film)

Here is a trailer for the acclaimed 2006 Aussie film, which was filmed in Qld’s Gold Coast rainforest hinterland, around Mt Tamborine,
(which is nearby to the Army’s (still active) jungle warfare training grounds at Canungra) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTGQeZscLBY


R-J