Forgotten Sons-Marillion

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[al:Script For A Jester's Tear]
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[00:25.57]Armalite street lights night sights
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[00:30.91]Searching the roofs for a sniper a viper a fighter
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[00:38.27]Death in the shadows he'll maim you
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[00:41.59]He'll wound you he'll kill you
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[00:45.32]For a long forgotten cause
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[00:49.95]On not so foreign shores
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[00:53.62]Boys baptized in war boys baptized in war
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[01:30.56]Morphine chill scream bad dream
[01:35.56]Serving as numbers on dog tags
[01:39.42]Flak rags sand bags
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[01:42.61]Your girl has married your best friend
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[01:46.30]Loves end poison pen
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[01:51.22]Your flesh will always creep tossing turning sleep
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[02:05.40]The wounds that burn so deep burn so deep
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[02:23.05]Your mother sits on the edge of the world
[02:25.67]When the cameras start to roll
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[02:28.17]Panoramic viewpoint resurrect the killing fold
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[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
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[02:46.05]Forgotten sons forgotten sons forgotten sons
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[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
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[04:21.61]For I am but mortal and mortals can only die
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[04:29.22]Asking questions pleading answers
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[04:32.71]From the nameless faceless watchers
[04:34.84]That parade the carpeted corridors of Whitehall
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[04:43.53]Who orders desecration mutilation
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[04:50.02]Verbal masturbation
[04:51.65]In the guarded bureaucratic wombs
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[04:57.19]Minister Minister care for your children
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[05:04.08]Order them not into damnation
[05:05.88]To eliminate those who would trespass against you
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[05:11.31]For whose is the kingdom the power
[05:14.93]The glory for ever and ever
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[05:24.62]Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen
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[05:40.05]Halt who goes there
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[05:41.98]Death
[05:43.68]Approach friend
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[06:00.11]You're just another coffin
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[06:03.10]On its way down the Emerald Isle
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[06:06.41]When your children's stony glances mourn
[06:10.09]Your death in a terrorist's smile
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[06:13.65]The bomber's arm placing fiery gifts
[06:16.77]On the supermarket shelves
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[06:20.94]Alley sings with shrapnel detonate a temporary hell
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[06:32.91]Forgotten sons forgotten sons
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[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
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[07:06.97]On the news a nation mourns
[07:09.53]You unknown soldier count the cost
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[07:13.90]For a second you'll be famous but labeled posthumous
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[07:26.29]Forgotten son forgotten son
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[07:39.34]Forgotten son forgotten son
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[07:46.88]They're still forgotten they're still still forgotten
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[08:00.81]Peace on earth and mercy mild
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[08:03.93]Mother Brown has lost her child
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[08:09.28]Just another forgotten son