"Each Small Candle" is a song by

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. The song was premiered as part of

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tour and subsequently released on the live album ''

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'' in 2000. No studio version of the song has been released. During the In the Flesh tour "Each Small Candle" was included in the

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of all the concerts of the

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, and some of the concerts of the

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tour (alternating with "Flickering Flame", another new song). Most of the lyrics were inspired by a news story from the

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of a Serbian soldier who saw a wounded Albanian woman, left his ranks and helped her.

References

Each Small Candle on RogerWaters.com
- included reference to the ''"South American man who had been tortured"''.

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