Thank you for the link.
The last verses from Road to Moscow (1974) by Al Stewart
I’m coming home, I’m coming home, now you can taste it in the wind, the war is over
And I listen to the clicking of the train-wheels as we roll across the border
And now they ask me of the time that I was caught behind their lines and taken prisoner
“They only held me for a day, a lucky break,” I say they turn and listen closer
I’ll never know, I’ll never know why I was taken from the line and all the others
To board a special train and journey deep into the heart of holy Russia
And it’s cold and damp in the transit camp, and the air is still and sullen
And the pale sun of October whispers the snow will soon be coming
And I wonder when I’ll be home again and the morning answers “Never”
And the evening sighs, and the steely Russian skies go on forever
From a comment about the meaning of the song:
Follows pretty much a literal history filled with all manner of specifics, but all of it from the Soviet perspective, particularly how those Red Army troops fortunate enough, or so they thought, to survive being taken prisoner by the Germans or even to escape the captivity of the Germans, only to discover that Stalin’s (Beria’s that is) people rounded them up and imprisoned or killed nearly all of them. Stalin’s secret police, what we think of as the KGB but I think it was still the NKVD at that time, was run by a particularly vicious henchman by the name of Lavrenti Beria. After Stalin died, one the very first things to happen under Kruschev was to have Beria shot. No one was safe as long as that psycho was still in existence and it is ironic that he was shot in the basement of the Lubyanka prison - right where he so often enjoyed dispensing the very same form of “justice” personally.
Here’s all the lyrics:
http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/140258/