Fish - Forgotten Sons Lyrics
Armalite, street lights, night-sightsSearching the roofs for a sniper, viper, fighterDeath in the shadows hell maim you, wound you, hell kill youFor long-forgotten cause, on not so foreign shoresBoys baptised in warsMorphine, chill stream, bad dreamServing as numbers on dogtags, flak-rags, sandbagsYour girl has married your best friend, loves end, poison penYour flesh will always creep, tossing turning sleepThe wounds that burn so deepYour mother sits on the edge of the worldWhen the cameras start to rollPanoramic viewpoints resurrect the killing foldYour father drains another beer hes one of the few that caresCrawling behind a saracens hullFrom the safety of his living room chairForgotten sons, forgotten sons, forgotten sonsAnd so I patrol in the valley of the shadow of the tricolorI must fear evil for I am but mortal and mortals can only dieAsking questions, pleading answers from the namelessFaceless watchers that stalk the carpeted corridors of whitehallWho order desecration, mutilation, verbal masturbationIn their guarded bureaucratic wombsMinister, minister care for your children, order them notInto damnation to eliminate those who would trespassAgainst you, for whose is the kingdom?The power and the glory, forever and everAmenHalt who goes there?DeathApproach.... friendYoure just another coffin on its way down the emerald aisleWhere the childrens stony glances mourn your deathIn a terrorists smileThe bombers arm places fiery gifts on the supermarket shelvesAlleys sing with shrapnel, dance in a temporary hellForgotten sonsFrom the dole queue to the regiment a profession in a flashBut remember mondays signings when from door to door you dashOn the news a nation mourns your unknown soldier count the costFor a second youll be famous but labelled posthumousForgotten sonsForgotten sonsRing o roses, they all fall downPeace on earth and mercy mild, mother brown has lost her childJust another forgotten son
