Forgotten Sons-Marillion

[ti:Forgotten Sons] [ar:Marillion] [al:Script For A Jester's Tear] [offset:0] [00:25.57]Armalite, street lights, night sights [00:30.91]Searching the roofs for a sniper, a viper, a fighter [00:37.16] [00:38.27]Death in the shadows he'll maim you, [00:40.96] [00:41.59]He'll wound you, he'll kill you [00:44.70] [00:45.32]For a long forgotten cause, [00:48.20] [00:49.95]On not so foreign shores [00:52.20] [00:53.62]Boys baptized in war, boys baptized in war [01:02.54] [01:30.56]Morphine, chill scream, bad dream [01:35.56]Serving as numbers on dog tags, [01:39.42]Flak rags, sand bags [01:42.04] [01:42.61]Your girl has married your best friend, [01:45.41] [01:46.30]Loves end, poison pen [01:50.28] [01:51.22]Your flesh will always creep, tossing turning sleep [02:02.91] [02:05.40]The wounds that burn so deep, burn so deep [02:16.00] [02:23.05]Your mother sits on the edge of the world [02:25.67]When the cameras start to roll, [02:27.54] [02:28.17]Panoramic viewpoint resurrect the killing fold [02:31.16] [02:32.17]Your father drains another beer, [02:34.35]He's one of the few that cares [02:36.90]Crawling behind a Saracen's hull [02:39.35]From the safety of his living room chair [02:42.65] [02:46.05]Forgotten sons, forgotten sons, forgotten sons [02:57.03] [04:15.18]And so as I patrol in the valley [04:17.23]Of the shadow of the Tricolor [04:18.87]I must fear evil, [04:20.30] [04:21.61]For I am but mortal and mortals can only die [04:25.23] [04:29.22]Asking questions, pleading answers [04:31.91] [04:32.71]From the nameless faceless watchers [04:34.84]That parade the carpeted corridors of Whitehall [04:40.10] [04:43.53]Who orders desecration, mutilation [04:47.66] [04:50.02]Verbal masturbation [04:51.65]In the guarded bureaucratic wombs [04:53.95] [04:57.19]Minister, Minister care for your children [05:00.14] [05:04.08]Order them not into damnation [05:05.88]To eliminate those who would trespass against you [05:09.38] [05:11.31]For whose is the kingdom, the power, [05:14.93]The glory for ever and ever [05:19.89] [05:24.62]Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen [05:39.25] [05:40.05]Halt who goes there [05:41.30] [05:41.98]Death [05:43.68]Approach friend [05:46.75] [06:00.11]You're just another coffin, [06:02.10] [06:03.10]On its way down the Emerald Isle [06:05.72] [06:06.41]When your children's stony glances mourn [06:10.09]Your death in a terrorist's smile [06:12.58] [06:13.65]The bomber's arm placing fiery gifts [06:16.77]On the supermarket shelves [06:19.50] [06:20.94]Alley sings with shrapnel detonate a temporary hell [06:26.22] [06:32.91]Forgotten sons, forgotten sons [06:41.89] [06:53.37]From the dole queue [06:54.87]To the regiment a profession in a flash [07:00.16]But remember, [07:01.41]Monday signings went from door to door you dash [07:06.28] [07:06.97]On the news a nation mourns [07:09.53]You unknown soldier count the cost [07:12.95] [07:13.90]For a second you'll be famous but labeled posthumous [07:19.62] [07:26.29]Forgotten son, forgotten son, [07:34.91] [07:39.34]Forgotten son, forgotten son [07:45.52] [07:46.88]They're still forgotten, they're still, still forgotten [07:57.62] [08:00.81]Peace on earth and mercy mild, [08:03.05] [08:03.93]Mother Brown has lost her child [08:07.17] [08:09.28]Just another forgotten son