Imagine the fear
And the noise and the smell
And the death of your hopes
As your best friend fell
The end of your dreams
And great expectations
Gone at the hands
Of evil nations.
Dying with the speed
Of a quick assignation
In mounds of character
Assassination
Feeding the dirt
With the youngest of men
All terror and telegram
And never again
Their dreams were enlisted
Our freedoms were won
They were tried, they were tested
In the barrel of a gun
Their lives snuffed out so
We are free from their fears
You do have our thanks,
Thanks through the years
Now drunk youths can choose
On which graves to urinate
These great freedoms granted
Are humanity's fate
So they kneel at the headstone
Just to spraycan the name
On a soldier's sacrifice -
Humanity's shame
Remember the evil
Of our European friends
Now we live in a time
Where apology is amends
For their hard-wired birthrights
To control and to slaughter
Your son, your father.
Your brother, your daughter
It was too close a contest
Of lions versus lice
It would have been different
Without such sacrifice
It might have been lost
This good versus rotten
And if it weren't for remembrance
We might have forgotten
