
Date of issue: 23.03.1995
Record label: Sanctuary Records Group
Song language: English
Jeopardy |
As the daylight starts to fade — |
Twisting shadows all around. |
Dead soldiers on parade — |
The ghosts of Porton Down. |
Hidden from the public eye, «A cause for regret» |
Wrote the Brigadier-General with the chemistry set. |
«Can't be more specific — the matter’s confidential, |
Links with other incidents are just coincidental.» |
In jeopardy — welcome to the lion’s den, |
We skate on thin ice — dice with death. |
While young boys drown in seas of poison — |
We are the plagiarists of breath. |
We go left right left right left — |
They’re left in the right again. |
We go right left right left right — |
We’ve no rights left anymore. |
Military science picking the locks |
Of a 20th Century Pandora’s box. |
A father tells a son, |
«The army makes a man of you.» |
Now all vital signs are gone — |
Another joins the countless few. |
Mentioned in dispatches — they tell the same old story, |
'Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori," |
They listened to him screaming — |
They sat and watched him writhe, |
Taking turns observing as his body burns alive. |
Rifles firing at the sky — |
As the «Last Post"starts to play. |
Young soldiers often die — |
And the truth gets filed away. |
Thomas Atkins (Private 20 967), |
Now reports for duty — |
He’s been posted up to heaven. |
Enlisted by conscription — a participant unwilling. |
Who didn’t plan to give his life for taking the «King's Shilling». |
In jeopardy — welcome to the lion’s den, |
We skate on thin ice — dice with death, |
While young boys drown in seas of poison — |
We are the plagiarists of breath. |
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