Forgotten Soldiers

HOOK
We fight with our lives at stake just to be
Forgotten in an instant/
Tortured by the violence
But haunted by the silence/
We believe in your lies
And live out your wickedest fantasies/
Just to be
Abused and neglected Overseas/
But still we will never regret it/
Becoming forgotten Soldiers of
Her majesty’s united dynasty/

(Verse)
You send us to Hell to kill or be killed/
And we answer your call without hesitation/
Void of all emotion when we pull that trigger/
But are we really Soldiers or have we become our own grave diggers/?
Now I ain’t tryna say I don’t believe in the mission/
I’m just questioning the reason for its inception/
Have we really fallen prey to someone else’s deception?
And are we really here as the contraception to another act of Terror/?
Or do the powers that be just simply believe
That they can send us away as the bearers of death and despair/?
To spread our own version of bloodshed and fear/
And when it comes time for them to face the music
They just hide behind the word
“Classified/”
Honoring those who have died once a year/
But never doing nothing about the ones who cower
Whenever they hear the sound of fireworks/
Because it takes them back to the sand/
Where they were forced to watch their best friends get blown up
And land twenty feet from where they used to stand/
Everyday seeing defenceless people slaughtered
Their own men and women abducted/
Their moral compass obstructed because
Quitting is not accepted and
Helping is not what they were instructed to do/
Now can you see why they all sing

HOOK
"We fight with our lives at stake just to be
Forgotten in an instant/
Tortured by the violence
But haunted by the silence/
We believe in your lies
And live out your wickedest fantasies/
Just to be
Abused and neglected Overseas/
But still we will never regret it/
Becoming forgotten Soldiers of
Her majesty’s united dynasty/"

(Verse)
And even though you pull us out when the enemy surrenders/
We are still under siege,
Haunted by the memories of that failed breach/
But silently we fight on,
Not on some beach/
But in our own fucking homes
We live out the lies that you preach/
Searching for answers but never asking questions/
“How can you live in mansions while we’re out on the street competing for food to eat/?”
You said you’d take care of us because the life we lead is horrendous/
Never thinkin’ twice about slashing the funding for our training/
But when it comes time for you to help us from crashing or regaining our footing/
You keep putting it off saying
That the flashing lights and mental fights are nothing
Or that we’re just hallucinating/
Seriously, are you fucking kidding/?!?
Hallucinating/?!?
And you think you have the right to boast about how you’re
“Illuminating the damaging effects of combat/?”
Well why don’t you take a step back and come back at it
Once you’ve seen it through our eyes/
Or better yet strap a vest to your chest and
Dawn our Battle Dress,
Fly over and live your lies/
Hear the cries of an innocent mother as she kisses her child just before he dies/
Live everyday seeing defenceless people slaughtered/
Your own men and women abducted/
And feel your moral compass become obstructed because

HOOK
We fight with our lives at stake just to be
Forgotten in an instant/
Tortured by the violence
But haunted by the silence/
We believe in your lies
And live out your wickedest fantasies/
Just to be
Abused and neglected Overseas/
But still we will never regret it/
Becoming forgotten Soldiers of
Her majesty’s united dynasty/

(Verse)
We are your Sons and Daughters
With broken shoulders/
Haunted by all the innocent lives we’ve stolen/
No our pain will never cease
It spreads like a disease/
But still we report to be deployed to see another enemy of yours destroyed/
Camped out in the shadows with no emotion, no hesitation/
At home or in some foreign nation
We play God for peace and protection/
But in the darkest of nights
We push our lives into the shadows/
All to be placed upon a bulletin board of forgotten Soldiers/
Our voices cry,
Our guns scream,
Our dreams die when our fears come to life/
Who would wanna live this life/?
Everything is a lie/
Our children will never say goodbye to
Forgotten Soldiers/
We are your Sons and Daughters
But now we live in Flanders Field/
How many more lives have to be lost before we can rise up
And shatter the shield of silence/?
Put an end to this fucking endless fight/?
Cuz I’m getting sick of the shadows
I need to feel the light on my face/
But then I’m taken right back to that motherfucking place/
And forced to see the faces of every life I’ve erased/
Cursed to live everyday
Seeing defenceless people slaughtered/
My own Men and Women abducted/
And ten years later my moral compass is still obstructed/
Because I was useless and helpless
And that Oath is fucking blasphemous/!