Forgotten Sons
Fish

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


  Purchase "Forgotten Sons"   Purchase Entire Album   Email Video to Friends   Play Youtube "Forgotten Sons" Video   Play Spotify "Forgotten Sons" Song   View Wikipedia "Forgotten Sons" Entry   Receive Emails for Future Fish Lyrics

Email:

  Link to "Forgotten Sons"   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Lyrics For You

Loading...

Lyrics by Fish

  3D   A Gentleman's Excuse Me   A Gentleman's Excuse Me   A Soldiers Story (Pilgrim's Address)   Angel Face   Another Murder Of A Day   Apeman   Arc Of The Curve   Assassing   Bandwagon   Beaujolais Day   Big Wedge   Big Wedge [DVD]   Bitter Suite   Black Canal   Black Canal [*]   Black Cannal   Blind Curve   Boston Tea Party   Boston Tea Party [1995 Re-Recording with the Sensa...   Boston Tea Party [1995 Studio Re-recording]   Bouncing Around The Room   Brother 52   Brother 52 [DVD]   Carnival Man   Change of Heart   Charting The Single   Chasing Miss Pretty   Chelsea Monday   Childhood's End?   Childhood's End?   Cinderella Search   Circle Line   Cliché   Cliché   Cliche   Clock Moves Sideways   Company   Credo   Dancing In Fog   Dear Friend   Devastante   Do Not Walk Outside This Area   Dove Stiamo Andando   Emerald Lies   Emperor's Song   Emperor's Song   Entra Nel Club   Exile on Princes Street   Exit Wound   Exit Wound   Fa Brutto   Faith Healer   Family Business   Family Business [1990 Original Recording]   Favourite Stranger   Favourite Stranger [1995 Re-recording]   Fearless   Five Years   Flower Of Scotland   Forgotten Sons [Multimedia Track]   Fortunes of War   Fortunes of War [Single Field]   Freaks   Fugazi   Garden Party   Going Under   Goldfish & Clowns   Goldfish and Clowns   Grendel   Grossa   Grossa [Edit][Instrumental]   He Knows You Know   Heart Of Lothian   Heart of Lothian [Multimedia Track]   Hold your Head up   Hotel Hobbies   Hotel Hobbies   I Know What I Like   I Know What I Like (in your wardrobe)   Incommunicado   Incomplete   Incubus   Incubus [1995 Re-recording]   Innocent Party   Innocent Party   Institution Waltz   Internal Exile   Internal Exile [*]   Jack And Jill   Jeepster   Jigsaw   Jumpsuit City   Jungle Ride   Just For The Record   Just Good Friends   Just Good Friends (Close)   Kayleigh   Kayleigh [1995 Studio Re-recording]   Kayleigh [Multimedia Track]   Kayleigh [Multimedia Track]   Lady Let It Lie   Lady Let It Lie [DVD]   Lady Nina   Lavender   Lavender [1995 Studio Re-recording]   Long Cold Day   Lords Of The Backstage   Lords of the Backstage [Multimedia Track]   Lucky   Market Square Heroes   Mission Statement   Mission Statement   Moving Targets   MR 1470   Mr. 1470   No Dummy   Numbers   Obligatory Ballad   Obligatory Ballad   Old Crow   Openwater   Our Smile   Out of My Life   Out of My Life [*]   Out Of My Mind   Parting Of The Ways   Perception of Johnny Punter   Pipeline   Pipeline [1994 Original Recording]   Plague of Ghosts   Poet's Moon   Poet's Moon   Pseudo Silk Kimono   Punch And Judy   Punch and Judy [1995 Studio Re-recording]   Question   Raw Meat   Resta Ancora   Rites of Passage   Roadhouse Blues   Say it with Flowers   Say It With Pride   Scandalo Al Sole   Scattering Crows   Scotland By Our Side   Script For A Jesters Tear   Sei Tu Quello Che Voglio   Senorita   Shadowplay   Shadows on the Barley   Shattering Crows (Still Time)   She Chameleon   Shortcut To Somewhere   Shot The Craw   Silent Night 9/11   Slainte Mhath   So Fellini   Solo   Solo [1993 Original Recording]   Sombody Special   Somebody Special   Somebody Special [1995 Studio Re-recording]   Something in the Air   Square Go   State of Mind   State of Mind [Album Version]   Story from a Thin Wall   Sugar Mice   Sunset Hill   Sunsets on Empire   Tara   Tara   That Time Of The Night   The Company   The Company [1990 Original Recording]   The Field   The Last Straw   The Lost Plot   The Perception of Johnny Punter   The Rookie   The Voyeur   The Voyeur (I Like to Watch)   The Voyeur (I Like To Watch)   The Web   Three Boats Down From The Candy   Tic-Tac-Toe   Tiki 4   Tilted Cross   Tongues   Tongues [1991 Original Recording]   Torch Song   Tu Mi Porti Su   Tumbledown   Tumbledown   Tux On   View from a Hill   View From the Hill   Vigil   Vigil [DVD]   Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors   Voice in the Crowd   Voyeur (I Like to Watch)   Warm Wet Circles   Waterhole   Waterhole (Expresso Bongo)   What Colour Is God   What Colour is God?   Whiplash   White Feather   White Feather [Multimedia Track]   White Russian   Worm in a Bottle   Zoo Class

Related Songs

  Forgotten Sons - Marillion  Long Forgotten Sons - Rise Against  Bastards of Young - Jesse Malin  Bastards Of Young - The GC5  Bastards Of Young - Replacements  BASTARDS OF YOUNG - The Replacements  Bastards of Young - Against Me!  Bastards of Young [DVD] - The Replacements  Bastards Of Young - Superdrag  Upward Over The Mountain - Iron & Wine  Upward Over The Mountain - Iron & Wine  Incantation of the Necromancer - Ravage  We Are The Lost - Libera  Let My People Go - Matt Redman  We Don't Care - Demon Hunter  God Particles - Assemble The Chariots   Of the Eagle and the Trident - Cromlech  Home - In The Midst Of Lions  Forgotten Years - Midnight Oil  Carry - Tori Amos  Battle Cry - Opera Ix  Diagnosis - Please Mr Gravedigger  Mach Shau...  Tuisto's Heart - Burzum  Mach Shau...  When All Is Said - Edge Of Sanity  Bora - Aisling  Black Winds Calling - Attacker  Dark Fate of Atlantis - Luca Turillis Rhapsody  Se la notte sogno, sogno di essere un maratoneta...  Nine Steps - Decapitated  The Rape of Nanking - Blood Tsunami  F.F.A. - Leather Nun  Brother Abel - My Name Is Nobody  Tattered Banners And Bloddy Flags - Amon Amarth  Tattered Banners And Bloody Flags - Amon Amarth  Brimstone Landscapes - Augury  Godshaped War - Twelve Tribes  Bath - Divine Comedy  Bath - Divine Comedy, The  Lagos Slums - Brazzaville  Friend Of A Friend - Yes  Friend of a Friend [#][*] - Yes  Sons - A Whisper in the Noise  Sons - Icehouse  Sons - Young Guns  South Of Heaven - Nerf Herder  Fimbulvetr Frost - Moonsorrow  Song Of The Dunadan - Glass Hammer  Who Your God Is - Damnation  Tastes Like Sympathy - Birdeatsbaby  The Curse Of The Great - Cryptopsy  South Of Heaven - Slayer - Machine Head  South Of Heaven - Deftones  Same Brown Earth - Los Lobos  Revocation Of Creation - Impending Doom  South Of Heaven - Ceremonial Castings  Hold My End Up - Delta Spirit  We Shall Prevail - Graveland  The Forgotten - All In Vain  Sons Of - Nana Mouskouri  Forgotten - Wideawake  Forgotten - Torque  Forgotten - Set Your Goals  Forgotten - TV on the Radio  Forgotten - Enslaved  Forgotten - Frisco Kid  Forgotten - Diorama  Forgotten - BloodLust  Forgotten - Blackhalo  Forgotten - Altered Images  Forgotten - Collin Raye  Forgotten - Sworn Enemy  Forgotten - Gothminister  Forgotten - 360 Nosebleed Hackysack  Forgotten - Diva Destruction  Forgotten - The Gathering  Forgotten - Callenish Circle  Forgotten - And Then I Turned Seven  Forgotten - Avril Lavigne  Forgotten - Liz  Forgotten - Acrostichon  Forgotten - Adamantium  Forgotten - Browning  Forgotten - Green Day  Forgotten - Neil Diamond  Forgotten - Avril Lavigne  Forgotten - Avail  Forgotten - Attacker  Forgotten - Chumbawamba  Forgotten - Linkin Park  Forgotten - Bury Your Dead  Forgotten - Caitie Taylor  Forgotten - Jamestown Story  Forgotten - Madam Adam  Forgotten - Gorilla Biscuits  Forgotten - Silver End  Sons of Lucy [DVD] - Army of Lovers  Sons Of Lucy - Army Of Lovers  Black Madonna - Theatres Des Vampires  Dogs - Motörhead  Dogs [Live] - Motörhead  Purgatory - Pat Benatar  Where Sinners Burn - Necrophobic  South of Heaven [DVD] - Slayer  South of Heaven [DVD Video][*] - Slayer  Her Northern Majesty - Ancient  South of Heaven [Live] - Slayer  South of Heaven [DVD][Live] - Slayer  South of Heaven [DVD][Live] - Slayer  Dogs - Motorhead  Dogs [Live] - Motörhead  Dogs - Motörhead  Filhos da Patria - Neblina  Dignity - Solas  Voices From The War - Motorhead  Voices from the War - Motörhead  Crazy Mary - David Allan Coe  Sons of - Scott Walker  Sons Of The Pioneers - April Wine  Sons Of The Silent Age - Bowie David  Sons Beat Down - Tom Cochrane  Sons of the Silent Age [DVD] - David Bowie  Sons of the Silent Age - David Bowie  Beware of the Stare - Ghostface Killah  Sons Of The Free - Sally Oldfield  Jacob & Sons...  Xa - C17H19NO3  Thorns of Crimson Death - Dissection  Call Me - Marcos Hernandez  South of Heaven [Jeff Hanneman Home Recording]...  Glory Is Calling Me - Claymore  South Of Heaven - Slayer  Sons And Daughters - Ian Hunter  All My Sons - James  Sons N' Lovers - Ian Hunter  Sons N' Lovers - Ian Hunter  Sons of a Dying World - Born From Pain  Sons and Daughters - Decemberists  Sons and Daughters [Live] - Ian Hunter  Jacob and Sons - Andrew Lloyd Webber  Country Living - We Are Scientists  Sons of the P - Digital Underground  The Sons Of Katie Elder - Johnny Cash  Sons of the Serpent - The Electric Hellfire Club  Sons of the Serpent - The Electric Hellfire Club  Sons & Daughters - Quaker City Nighthawks  Sons of Temperance - Fall  Kill Your Sons - Christian Death  Kill Your Sons [Live] - Tommy Keene  Kill Your Sons - Tommy Keene  Kill Your Sons [DVD] - Lou Reed  Kill Your Sons - Lou Reed  Sons Of Temperance - The Fall  Jacob and Sons \/ Joseph's Coat - Tim Rice  Darkwater Byu - Deastro  Shoveling sons - Radar Bros.  Fathers & Sons - Amandine  Fathers & Sons - For Love Not Lisa  Fortunate Sons - The Boo Radleys  Fallen Sons - Xdeathstarx  Wayfaring Sons - Colin Hay  Ethiopian Sons - Tony Rebel  Gentle Sons - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart  Four Sons - Jucifer  Nephilim Sons - Septic Flesh  Say Sons - Bruce Springsteen  Sorry Sons - Cranberries  English Sons - Bruce Springsteen  Sacrificed Sons - Dream Theater  Three Sons - John Williamson  Native Sons - Big Baby Gandhi  Aarons Sons - Blinded Colony  Pagan Sons - Brimstone  Sons And Daughters - Sea Wolf  Sons Of Seven Stars - Amberian Dawn  Deep - Adam Again  Lightning - Oingo Boingo  A River For Him - Emmylou Harris  Defile the Angelic - Arghoslent  For What Died the Sons of Róisín...  Winter Solstice - Cold Specks  Viento Del Arena - Gipsy Kings  Sons and Daughters - The Decemberists  My Three Sons - Elvis Costello  The Wife of Usher's Well - Bellowhead  No Hope - Sons of Funk  Sons Of Night - Black Veil Brides  Creative Burns - Biffy Clyro  Sons Of The System - Mnemic  Firegun - OMD  Red on White on Blue - Mk Ultra  Unhallowed - Dissection  The Ancient Plague - Kreator  Nothing Will Change - Christopher Cross  Not Forgotten (New Song) - Delirious?  Forgiven Not Forgotten [Acoustic] - The Corrs  Men Behind The Wire - Wolfe Tones  Forgotten Too...  Forgiven Not Forgotten - Corrs, The