Each Small Candle is a song by Roger Waters. It was released on his compilation album Flickering_Flame:_The_Solo_Years_Vol._1 in 2002. The song is inspired by a story from the Kosovo war, when a Serbian soldier saw a wounded Albanian woman, left his ranks and helped her. It also includes some lyrics written by a South American man who had become a victim of torture. George Roger Waters (born September 6, 1943) is a British rock musician and songwriter. ... Flickering Flame: The Solo Years Vol. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... The term Kosovo War or Kosovo Conflict is often used to describe two sequential and at times parallel armed conflicts (a civil war followed by an international war) in the southern Serbian province called Kosovo (officially Kosovo and Metohia), part of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. ... Torture is any act by which severe discomfort, whether physical pain or psychological pressure, is intentionally inflicted on a person as a means of intimidation, a deterrent, revenge, a punishment, or as a method for the extraction of information or confessions (i. ...