Forgotten Sons:
"You're just another coffin on its way down the emerald aisle
When your children's stony glances mourn your death in a terrorist's smile
The bomber's arm placing fiery gifts on the supermarket shelves
Alley sings with shrapnel detonate a temporary hell
Forgotten Sons"
Sometimes Marillion's music can sound so hopeless-- "and you listen with a tear in your eye to their loathsome betrayals, and your only reply is Slainte Mhath" but mostly they're just angry. They write the music that Roger Waters wanted to write in his "Requiem for the Post-War Dream," full of anger at the betrayal of the working class in Britain. Forgotten Sons is about the British soldiers who died in Ireland since the Troubles started.
Interestingly to me is that the anger in this song is aimed not at the people who pulled the trigger and killed the soldier, but at the people in the British government who ordered the war ("the nameless faceless watchers who parade the carpeted corridors of Whitehall"), who send soldiers out to get their fifteen minutes of posthumous fame.
Marillion is definitely the most interesting band to come out of Scotland in the early '80s and you should really listen to them if you have any interest in postwar angst.
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