Marillion - Forgotten Sons - 2020 Stereo Remix Lyrics

Lyrics Forgotten Sons - 2020 Stereo Remix - Marillion



Armalite, street lights, nightsights
Searching the roofs for a sniper, a viper, a fighter
Death in the shadows he'll maim you,
He'll wound you, he'll kill you
For a long forgotten cause, on not so foreign shores
Boys baptised in wars
Morphine, chill scream, bad dream
Serving as numbers on dogtags, flakrags, sandbags
Your girl has married your best friend, loves 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 viewpoint 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 as I patrol in the valley of the shadow of the tricolour
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 orders desecration, mutilation, verbal masturbation
I in the 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, 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
When your children's stony glances
Mourn your death in a terrorist's smile
The bomber's arm placing fiery gifts on the supermarket shelves
Alley sings with shrapnel detonate a temporary hell
Forgotten Sons
From the dole queue to the regiment a profession in a flash
But remember Monday signings when from door to door you dash
On the news a nation mourns you unknown soldier, count the cost
For a second you'll be famous but labeled posthumous
Forgotten sons, forgotten sons
Peace on earth and mercy mild, Mother Brown has lost her child
Just another Forgotten Son



Writer(s): Mark Kelly, Steve Rothery, Pete Trewavas, Derek William Dick, Michael James Pointer, Diz Minnett, Brian Jellyman


Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear (Deluxe Edition)
Album Script for a Jester's Tear (Deluxe Edition)
date of release
03-04-2020

1 Script for a Jester's Tear - 2020 Stereo Remix
2 He Knows You Know - 2020 Stereo Remix
3 The Web - 2020 Stereo Remix
4 Garden Party - 2020 Stereo Remix
5 Chelsea Monday - 2020 Stereo Remix
6 Forgotten Sons - 2020 Stereo Remix
7 Market Square Heroes - 2020 Stereo Remix
8 Three Boats Down From the Candy - 2020 Stereo Remix
9 Grendel - 2020 Stereo Remix
10 Charting the Single - 2020 Remaster
11 Garden Party - Live at the Marquee Club, London December 29, 1982
12 Three Boats Down From the Candy - Live at the Marquee Club, London December 29, 1982
13 Grendel - Live at the Marquee Club, London December 29, 1982
14 Chelsea Monday - Live at the Marquee Club, London December 29, 1982
15 He Knows You Know - Live at the Marquee Club, London December 29, 1982
16 The Web - Live at the Marquee Club, London December 29, 1982
17 Script for a Jester's Tear - Live at the Marquee Club, London December 29, 1982
18 Forgotten Sons - Live at the Marquee Club, London December 29, 1982
19 Market Square Heroes - Live at the Marquee Club, London December 29, 1982
20 Margaret - Live at the Marquee Club, London December 29, 1982




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