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 20967)

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

While young boys drown in seas of poison -

We are the plagiarists of breath