Memoriam
Requiem for Mankind
1. Shell Shock
In this shattered landscape paralysed with fear
There is no escape you scream nobody hears
Mind is frozen full of dread none can help you now
All around now lay the dead no life can be found
Crawling through no mans land across the mud and wire
Regrouped for one last stand caught in the crossfire
Maxim burst spitting forth a hail of certain death
Creating a hell on earth gasp at your last breath
You may live through this to fight another day
The horror of it all will never fade away
The pain that grows deep inside your mind
Inner tranquility you will never find
Lost all senses far beyond control
This inner anguish eats away your soul
All living nightmare all memory now blocked
You body shaking a victim of shell shock
Awaiting in your prison cell the time is drawing near
No chance for last farewells lucidity unclear
The court martial has ordered you shall be shot at dawn
Tied to a stake blindfolded life now gone
Shellshock
Shellshock
Shellshock
Shellshock
Shellshock
Shellshock
Shellshock
Shellshock
2. Undefeated
Undefeated
No retreat, no respite
Acts of valour unrepeated
"No pasarán!" the battle cry
Still forging on
Through advancing years
The past now gone
Yet the memory remains
Filled with pride
In victory triumphant
Fear denied
Until this war is won
Undefeated
No retread, no respite
Acts of valour unrepeated
"No pasarán!" the battle cry
Undefeated
Undefeated
When there's nothing left, you cannot take much more
Remember who you are and what you're fighting for
When you find yourself with your back against the wall
Look to your inner strength, take courage, stand tall
Still stay strong
Life moves on
Undefeated
Undefeated
3. Never the Victim
Never the victim
Instinct to survive
From the lowest point
In strength now shall strive
Forever a fighter
The warrior spirit
No burden of guilt
No defeat, no compromise
I shall arise
Stronger than before
This storm inside
Weathered, will subside
From the chains that hold
As my heart grows cold
Your shame, your crime
Cannot decrease in time
No emotion, love now dies
Fire gone within your eyes
I shall arise
Wiser than before
Filled with rage
Fear engaged
All the lies
No disguise
Forget the future and the past
Live for today, nothing lasts
All that once was certain now is gone
With pride and courage carry on
The hopes and dreams we once made
Lay in ruins now decayed
Through this suffering and pain
I shall learn to live again
4. Austerity Kills
Not the cuts of a scalpel
These are cuts of a butcher's knife
Devastating effects
On human life
Imposed to cure recession
Affecting those most poor
Society's most vulnerable
Cannot take much more
A system of repression
That cannot be endured
Impacting on the weakest
This cannot be ignored
Austerity kills
Austerity kills
Austerity kills
Austerity kills
Survival of the richest
Corporations under-taxed
Increasing spiral of poverty
Society under attack
Not the cuts of a scalpel
These are cuts of a butcher's knife
Devastating effects
On human life
A shameful crisis of morality
As millions live and die in poverty
Is this the 21st century?
There has to be a better way
Austerity kills
Austerity
5. In the Midst of Desolation
Life now gone, there's nothing left
Now at peace in eternal rest
Within this mourning
Beyond the pain
Memories repeated again and again
An inner torment
Grief held inside
Tears falling that will not subside
Time to leave, a final farewell
Amongst the stars I now dwell
If heaven won't take you
Then the devil will
The reaper calling
Destiny fulfilled
Fulfilled
Life now gone, there's nothing left
Now at peace in eternal rest
Within this sadness
Intense disdain
Feelings of sorrow you cannot contain
Increasing anguish
Heartbreak shows
Dearly departed, misery grows
Time to leave, a final farewell
Amongst the stars I now dwell
Solemn the drums thrill
Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears
6. Refuse to Be Led
Time has come to make a stand
The future now within our hands
Challenging decisions made
Undeterred, unafraid
In this divided kingdom
Walls are closing in
A disunited state
How did this begin?
Rhetoric of hate
Poisoning the mind
Political debate
Blind following the blind
Deception
False facts we are fed
Rejection
Contempt now is bred
Tension
As defiance spreads
Objection
Refuse to be led
In this fragmented nation
Anger dwells within
Increasing isolation
None of us can win
Can we contemplate
In dark satanic mills?
Is it far too late?
Fear is now instilled
Time has come to make a stand
The future now within our hands
Challenging decisions made
Undeterred, unafraid
Resistance now the only solution
Bring to an end corrupt constitution
Fail to accept government lies
Decline to obey, refuse to comply
Deception
False facts we are fed
Rejection
Contempt now is bred
Tension
As defiance spreads
Objection
Refuse to be led
7. The Veteran
None can see the horror I have seen
None can feel this emptiness I feel
The veteran
None can hear the screams I hear
None can wash away the blood and tears
In the line of duty
Deep in harm's way
Psychologically scarred
The price you have paid
Transition civilian life
No one understands
Unable to integrate
No future, no plans
Sleeping in doorways
Living in the street
Begging to strangers
For coins so you can eat
Most people don’t look
While others stare
Society's rejected
In a world that does not care
None can see the horror I have seen
None can feel this emptiness I feel
The veteran
None can hear the screams I hear
None can wash away the blood and tears
Lost all sense of meaning
Reality surreal
PTSD afflicted
Wounds that never heal
The veteran
The veteran
A message to the government
Honour the military covenant
8. Requiem for Mankind
The final act
Shall now begin
Forgive us from
Our mortal sins
Hear the sermon
A last lament
Led from temptation
Now to repent
Lowered down
Into the grave
The earth now calls
Honouring the brave
Requiem for mankind
Now ring out
The death knell
Solemn sound
Of the funeral bell
Consigned into
Eternity
The last rites
Closing eulogy
Lowered down
Into the grave
The earth now calls
Honouring the brave
Preordained, what shall be shall be
The body lost, the spirit set free
Forevermore, eternal sleep
The end of life, resting in peace
Requiem for mankind
Sanctuary denied
Requiem for mankind
Revered in glory
Legend lives on
Within our soul
Now is one
Place the stone
On the burial mound
Tranquility
Now is found
Lowered down
Into the grave
The earth now calls
Honouring the brave
9. Fixed Bayonets
Standing in line
Awaiting in the trenches
Now the order comes
Fixed bayonets
As the whistles blow
Over the top you go
Towards enemy territory
Fixed bayonets
Moving forward
Hold the line
The dead and wounded
Left behind
No place for fear
In your mind
Benevolence
Is now declined
Across no man's land
Through unbroken defences
Weapon gripped in your hands
Fixed bayonets
Onwards you march
Past the point of endurance
At the edge of sanity
Fixed bayonets
Cheek by jowl
Fighting at close quarters
Face to face
Destroy the enemy
Into the breach
For God, king, and country
Amongst the adversary
Fixed bayonets
Fighting for your life
With grim determination
As the bloodshed flows
Fixed bayonets
Moving forward
Hold the line
The dead and wounded
Left behind
No place for fear
In your mind
Benevolence
Is now declined
Cheek by jowl
Fighting at close quarters
Face to face
Destroy the enemy
10. Interment
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