Marillion – Forgotten Sons (Guitar)

D         E              G
Armalite, street lights, nightsights

A                         D         E        G
Searching the roofs for a sniper, a viper, a fighter

A                          D               E                G
Death in the shadows he'll maim you, he'll wound you, he'll kill you

A                    Am
For a long forgotten cause, on not so foreign shores

     D                F  D  F
Boys baptised in wars

F                Am
Boys baptised in wars

Am
Morphine, chill scream, bad dream

Am                    D        F         D
Serving as numbers on dogtags, flakrags, sandbags

     F                     Am
Your girl has married your best friend, loves end, poison pen

     D          F      D    F   Am
Your flesh will always creep,   tossing turning sleep

D               F       D F
The wounds that burn so deep

A5
Your mother sits on the edge of the world

A5
When the cameras start to roll

A5
Panoramic viewpoint resurrect the killing fold

A5
Your father drains another beer, he's one of the few that cares

A5
Crawling behind a Saracen's hull from the safety of his living room chair

A5
Forgotten sons, forgotten sons, forgotten sons

A5
And so as I patrol in the valley of the shadow of the tricolour

A5
I must fear evil, for I am but mortal and mortals can only die

A5
Asking questions, pleading answers from the nameless faceless watchers

A5
That stalk the carpeted corridors of Whitehall

A5
Who orders desecration, mutilation, verbal masturbation

A5
I in the guarded bureaucratic wombs

A5
Minister, minister care for your children, order them not into damnation

A5
To eliminate those who would trespass against you

A5                                                               Am    A5    Dm
For whose is the kingdom, the power, the glory forever and ever, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen

N.C.                                      Dm
Halt who goes there, Death, approach friend

Dm                         Bb     C                       Am
You're just another coffin on its way down the emerald aisle

          Bb               C                  Am                         Bb
When your children's stony glances mourn your death in a terrorist's smile

    Dm                   Bb                 C                Am
The bomber's arm placing fiery gifts on the supermarket shelves

Bb               C                 Am             Bb
Alley sings with shrapnel detonate a temporary hell

Am        Bb
Forgotten Sons

Bb        Dm
Forgotten Sons

Bb           Dm                Bb         C               Am
From the dole queue to the regiment a profession in a flash

Bb                  C                  Am                  Bb
But remember Monday signings when from door to door you dash

Bb     Dm                  Bb           C                      Am
On the news a nation mourns you unknown soldier, count the cost

Bb                    C           Am               Bb
For a second you'll be famous but labeled posthumous

Bb        Dm  Bb  C
Forgotten son

Am        Bb    C         Am  Bb
Forgotten sons, Forgotten sons

       Dm  Bb      G    Am
They’re still forgotten

Am       Bb    C     Am       Bb
They’re still, still forgotten

Dm                 Bb          C                Am           Bb  C
Peace on earth and mercy mild, Mother Brown has lost her child

C    Am      Bb C      D
Just another Forgotten Son