[00:00.06]Armalite street lights night sights
[00:19.59]Searching the roofs for a sniper a viper a fighter
[00:25.65]Death in the shadows he'll maim you he'll wound you he'll kill you
[00:27.54]For a long forgotten cause on not so foreign shores
[00:39.81]Boys baptized in war boys baptized in war
[00:45.42]Morphine chill scream bad dream
[00:50.25]Serving as numbers on dog tags flak rags sand bags
[01:02.67]Your girl has married your best friend loves end poison pen
[01:08.13]Your flesh will always creep tossing turning sleep
[01:20.01]The wounds that burn so deep burn so deep
[01:26.82]Your mother sits on the edge of the world
[01:40.20]When the cameras start to roll
[01:42.36]Panoramic viewpoint resurrect the killing fold
[01:43.50]Your father drains another beer he's one of the few that cares
[01:48.81]Crawling behind a saracen's hull from the safety of his living room chair
[01:56.37]Forgotten sons forgotten sons forgotten sons
[01:58.23]And so as I patrol in the valley of the shadow of the tricolor
[02:00.57]I must fear evil for I am but mortal and mortals can only die
[02:06.87]Asking questions pleading answers
[02:08.34]From the nameless faceless watchers
[02:11.22]That parade the carpeted corridors of whitehall
[02:16.20]Who orders desecration mutilation
[02:21.03]Verbal masturbation in the guarded bureaucratic wombs
[02:26.40]Minister minister care for your children
[02:34.53]Order them not into d**nation
[02:37.35]To eliminate those who would trespass against you
[02:51.42]For whose is the kingdom the power the glory for ever and ever
[03:59.34]Amen amen amen amen amen
[04:00.00]Halt who goes there
[04:03.57]Death
[04:03.90]Approach friend
[04:04.38]You're just another coffin on its way down the emerald isle
[04:13.11]When your children's stony glances mourn
[04:14.55]Your death in a terrorist's smile
[04:17.33]The bomber's arm placing fiery gifts on the supermarket shelves
[04:21.32]Alley sings with shrapnel detonate a temporary hell
[04:22.50]Forgotten sons forgotten sons
[04:29.88]From the dole queue to the regiment a profession in a flash
[04:33.93]But remember Monday signings went from door to door you dash
[04:40.89]On the news a nation mourns you unknown soldier count the cost
[04:43.74]For a second you'll be famous but labeled posthumous
[04:51.51]Forgotten son forgotten son forgotten son forgotten son
[04:57.87]They're still forgotten they're still still forgotten
[05:05.49]Peace on earth and mercy mild mother brown has lost her child
[05:47.13]Just another forgotten son