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 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 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