Tank Park Salute

Song Tank Park Salute
Artist Billy Bragg
Album The Best of Mountain Stage - Vol. 2

Lyrics

Kiss me goodnight and say my prayers
Leave the light on at the top of the stairs
Tell me the names of the stars up in the sky
A tree taps on the window pane
That feeling smothers me again
Daddy is it true that we all have to die
At the top of the stairs
Is darkness
I closed my eyes and when
I looked Your name was in the memorial book and what had become of all the things we planned
I accepted the commiserations
Of all your friends and your relations
But there's some things
I still don't understand
You were so tall
How could you fall?
Some photographs of a summer's day
A little boy's lifetime away
Is all I've left of everything we've done
Like a pale moon in a sunny sky
Death gazes down as
I pass by
To remind me that
I'm but my father's son
I offer up to you
This tribute
I offer up to you
This tank park salute