Tiger

Where the shingle rose and tumbles into the ever graven sea

Where the waves surround the cliff edge

This burden lives with me

Beneath the filtered beckon

Stretch into the sand

Me my home my history

My secret on this land

In '43 a message came

A sacrifice it seemed

Each family would leave their home

To meet these fighting schemes

Bound in silence

I was bound and sworn

But you can hear that tiger when he roars

Bound in silence

I was bound and sworn

But you can hear that tiger when he roars

Those hunky troops came forward

Charged upon our strand

The raging bullets battering

From those ever youthful hands

We watched high on the hillside

From the banks onto the beach

Counted every covered fire

And each blast was sinking deep

Judgement came in swiftly

We found an armoured shell

And the cry of panic tore the air

Young leftridge he had fell

Bound in silence

I was bound and sworn

But you can hear that tiger when he roars

Bound in silence

I was bound and sworn

But you can hear that tiger when he roars

Then april brought a bitterness a truth that we were told

But how the boats scattered them

A tragedy exposed

For the weeks the trials continued

For months they frayed and fought

Till all the deals were set upon

And all the witnesses were brought

Where the shingle rose and tumbles into the ever graven sea

Here I broke my promise

This story lives in me

And here I broke my promise

This story lives in me

Bound in silence

I was bound and sworn

But you can hear that tiger when he roars

Bound in silence

I was bound and sworn

But you can hear that tiger when he roars