Marillion - Forgotten sons

Marillion - Forgotten sons (live)
Pris sur l'album live Real To Reel sorti en 1984.

From the album live Real To Reel in 1984

Lyrics :
Armalite, street lights, night-sights
Searching the roofs for a sniper, viper, fighter
Death in the shadows he'll maim you, wound you, he'll kill you
For long-forgotten cause, on not so foreign shores
Boys baptised in wars

Morphine, chill stream, bad dream
Serving as numbers on dogtags, flak-rags, sandbags
Your girl has married your best friend, love's end, poison pen
Your flesh will always creep, tossing 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 Sons, forgotten Sons, forgotten 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 questions, pleading answers from the nameless
Faceless watchers that stalk the carpeted corridors of Whitehall
Who order desecration, mutilation, verbal masturbation
In their guarded bureaucratic wombs

Minister, Minister care for your children, order them not
Into damnation to eliminate those who would trespass
Against you, for whose is the kingdom?
The power and the Glory, forever and ever
Amen

Halt who goes there?

death

Approach.... friend

You're just another coffin on its 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 shrapnel, dance 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' roses, they all fall down
Peace on earth and mercy mild, Mother Brown has lost her child
Just another Forgotten Son

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• Fish
• Live

[adamfinspain]

18 year old dies in Afganistan today, will we ever learn?

[DAVIDOFF1100]

Great song love Marilion PEACE

[chrisM33]

We dont learn because every young generation of young men wants to prove themselves, join the army and have adventure etc, so even hearing and now days with the internet seeing the results of men blown up by bombs and shot, it will never put them off, because they want there chance to prove there a man. The government's dont learn because quite frankly for all there talk of caring and wanting peace, they dont give a flying fuck as its all down to money and power

[VisionthingWST]

why do we not learn?

[wipedtoo]

Epic - forever relevant

[PhilOfDover]

If you listen carefully to the lyrics,it really is truly amazing.

[Marco33185]

LE TRÈS GRAND MARILLION c'est ça !!!! ...

aujourd'hui il n'est même plus l'ombre de lui même avec certains de ses titres qui sont de la grosse soupe !

[MAGNUM2F]

actually, this isnt superb! its absolutely one of the ebst things ever written...

[MAGNUM2F]

superb!

[MOSESCAT69]

Dying, Dying. Young men. Today. Forgotten sons .

[ralliahlen]

Scheiß Drauf Wir Leben

[TheTanjaL]

Eins der besten auf Real to reel :-)