Jeopardy lyrics

Song information

Artist: Skyclad
Album: The Silent Whales Of Lunar Sea

Lyrics

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

[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]

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