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