Armalite, street lights, nightsights |
| Searching the roofs for a sniper, a viper, a fighter |
| Death in the shadows he'll maim you, he'll wound you, he'll kill you |
| For a long forgotten cause, on not so foreign shores |
| Boys baptised in wars |
Morphine, chill scream, bad dream |
| Serving as numbers on dog tags, flak rags, sandbags |
| Your girl has married your best friend, loves end, poison pen |
| Your flesh will always creep, tossing turning sleep |
| The wounds that burn so deep |
Your mother sits on the edge of the world |
| When the cameras start to roll |
| Panoramic viewpoint resurrect the killing fold |
| Your father drains another beer, he's one of the few that cares |
| Crawling behind a Saracen's hull from the safety of his living room chair |
| Forgotten sons, forgotten sons, forgotten sons |
And so as I patrol in the valley of the shadow of the tricolour |
| I must fear evil, for I am but mortal and mortals can only die |
| Asking questions, pleading answers from the nameless faceless watchers |
| That stalk the carpeted corridors of Whitehall |
Who orders desecration, mutilation, verbal masturbation |
| I in the guarded bureaucratic wombs |
Minister, minister care for your children, order them not into damnation |
| To eliminate those who would trespass against you |
| For whose is the kingdom, the power, the glory forever and ever, Amen |
| Halt who goes there, Death, approach friend |
You're just another coffin on its way down the emerald aisle |
| When your children's stony glances mourn your death in a terrorist's smile |
| The bomber's arm placing fiery gifts on the supermarket shelves |
| Alley sings with shrapnel detonate a temporary hell |
| Forgotten Sons |
From the dole queue to the regiment a profession in a flash |
| But remember Monday signings when from door to door you dash |
| On the news a nation mourns you unknown soldier, count the cost |
| For a second you'll be famous but labeled posthumous |
Forgotten sons, forgotten sons |
| Peace on earth and mercy mild, Mother Brown has lost her child |
| Just another Forgotten Son |