Ensign Red - What We Left Behind

Over the ramparts we will watch and stare
So we can witness the bombs burst in the air
A killing field surrounds our world of view
We oh so noble, foolishly tried and true
Another whistle sounds and the screams commence
A public display of our penitence
The thousand-yard stares the gore and grime
Helpless to shake the disease that grips our minds
Time after time
Trampled fields abandoned hearts are yet another sign
A mother holds a picture desperately
A brother stares with solemn dignity
A father grasps a letter to his chest
Knowing full well his offspring's fate at last
We hear the story told a million ways
To valor and esprit of shining rays
The flower of propagation now enshrined
Amid the chaos and carnage of the frontline
Time after time
Little more than closing notes eulogy undermined
Another rich man's war
With poor men intertwined
The missing dreams and fruitless schemes
Of what we left behind
A generation dead
History's maligned
Our cenotaph last epitaph
Of what we left behind
What we left behind
Another rich man's war
With poor men intertwined
The missing dreams and fruitless schemes
Of what we left behind
A generation dead
History's maligned
Our cenotaph last epitaph
Of what we left behind
What we left behind
What we left behind
What we left behind
What we left behind
What we left behind

Written by:
Michael Larsen

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