Armalitestreet lightsnight-sights

Searching the roofs for a sniperviperfighter

Death in the shadows he'll maim youwound youhe'll kill you

For long-forgotten causeon not so foreign shores

Boys baptised in wars



Morphinechill streambad dream

Serving as numbers on dogtagsflak-ragssandbags

Your girl has married your best friendlove's endpoison pen

Your flesh will always creeptossing turning sleep

The wounds that burn so deep



Your mother sits on the edge of the world

When the cameras start to roll

Panoramic viewpoints 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 sonsforgotten sonsforgotten sons



And so I patrol in the valley of the shadow of the tricolor

I must fear evil for I am but mortal and mortals can only die

Asking questionspleading answers from the nameless

Faceless watchers that stalk the carpeted corridors of whitehall

Who order desecrationmutilationverbal masturbation

In their guarded bureaucratic wombs



Ministerminister care for your childrenorder them not

Into damnation to eliminate those who would trespass

Against youfor whose is the kingdom? 

The power and the gloryforever and ever

Amen



Halt who goes there? 



Death



Approach.... friend



You're just another coffin on it's way down the emerald aisle

Where the children's stony glances mourn your death

In a terrorist's smile

The bomber's arm places fiery gifts on the supermarket shelves

Alleys sing with shrapneldance in a temporary hell



Forgotten sons



From the dole queue to the regiment a profession in a flash

But remember monday's signings when from door to door you dash

On the news a nation mourns your unknown soldier count the cost

For a second you'll be famous but labelled posthumous



Forgotten sons

Forgotten sons



Ring o' rosesthey all fall down

Peace on earth and mercy mildmother brown has lost her child

Just another forgotten son