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.