Lyric discussion by vegetariancannibal 

Cover art for The Sun Is Burning lyrics by Simon and Garfunkel

It's so beautifully sad. You can read significant parts of the first few verses, once you know how it all turns out, as if they know, as if they know they can't do anything and just decide to live out the rest of their lives the way they wanted. At that time, it was quite possible that one country could annihilate another and there was no escape.