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The Glorious Dead

from My Own Way by Philip Jeays

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THE GLORIOUS DEAD

Those who killed by their bare hand
No solemn duty to fulfil
Not for their king nor for their land
But for the pleasure of the kill
Those who, each and every one
In peacetime we would all condemn
At the going down of the sun
We do not remember them
No we remember there instead
The proud and the victorious
The gallant and the glorious
Dead

So you can stand up proud today
And you can wipe that tear away
Because you know to tell the truth
It doesn’t matter anyway
‘Cause I never did believe
A single word you said
When you asked me to believe
In your glorious dead

Those who picked the very teeth
From the skulls of the grinning dead
Who cared not for the men beneath
But for the profit there instead
Those who, each and every one
In peacetime we would all condemn
At the going down of the sun
We do not remember them
No we remember there instead
The packaged and the sanitised
The neat and the anaesthetised
Dead

So you can stand up proud today
And you can wipe that tear away
Because you know to tell the truth
It makes no difference anyway
‘Cause I never did believe
A single word you said
When you asked me to believe
In your glorious dead

And those who were not taken in
Who fought because they thought it right
Who died as bravely as their kin
But still preferred their poppies white
Those who, each and every one
In peacetime now you still condemn
At the going down of the sun
We do not remember them
No we remember there instead
The silent and obedient
The mute and the convenient
Dead

So you can stand up proud today
And you can wipe that tear away
Because you know to tell the truth
I’m not that bothered anyway
‘Cause I never did believe
A single word you said
When you asked me to believe
In your glorious dead

No I never did believe
Not a single word you said
Don’t ask me to believe
In your glorious dead

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from My Own Way, released January 1, 2012

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