brightrosefox | Memorial Days (Reply)

As I came into work, I kept thinking, what would I do if something happened today? What would I do if something happened any day? I thought about my loved ones. I thought, especially, about Jason, who is alive. Jason who was working construction on the Pentagon that day. Who was standing not fifty feet from where the plane hit. Who fell four stories. Who returned to help the surivors. Who is alive. We love you, boyo.
I wanted to say something profound, but so many others will be doing that. This is a Rememberance Day. So all I can do is remember and hold my beloved ones close. I'm wearing my family beads today. Three of them are white, blue, and red.

Tell all the people who believe
what they read in the press
tell all the folk who stare
from behind suburban walls
the enemy is not some nation far across the sea
the enemy is with us every single breathing day.

So yes, i will fight for my country
the land that i love so well
yes - for justice
a land fit for all our futures
yes,i will fight for my country
the land that i love so well
hear the voices
of our history echo all around.

Fight all the ones who divide us
rich against poor
fight all the ones who divide us
white against black
fight all the powers who want their missiles
in our earth
fight all the people who would
lead us into war.

And yes, i will fight for my country...

No rights were ever given to us
by the grace of god
no rights were ever given
by some United Nations clause
no rights were ever given
by some nice guy at the top
our rights - they were bought by all the blood
and all the tears of all our
grandmothers,grandfathers before.

For all the folk who gave their lives for us
for all the folk who spit out - never say die
for all the fires burning on our highest hills
for all the people spinning tales tonight
fight all the powers who abuse our common laws
fight all the powers who think they only owe themselves.

And yes,i will fight for my country...

Our history speaks in thunder from a thousand village halls
In blood and sweat and sacrifice, in honouring every call
So the forces gathered against the thorn a-piercing in their side
A brave new world is beckoning so the olden world must die.
In the offices of the city, at all the tables of oak and power
The snares are laid and baited for the approaching of the hour
A hundred justifications and the presses are ready to roll
The gateways to the nation they are firmly under control

On, on, on, cried the leaders at the back
We went galloping down the blackened hills
And into the gaping trap
The bridges are burnt behind us and there's waiting guns ahead
Into the valley of death rode the brave hundreds

We called for some assistance from the friends that we had known
But this is the 1980s and we were on our own
We never felt like heroes or martyrs to a cause
Just battle-weary soldiers in a bloody civil war

The massacre now is over and the order new enshrined
While a quarter of the nation are abandoned far behind
Their leaders offer the cliché words, so righteous in defeat
But no one needs morality when there isn't enough to eat
The unity bond is broken and the loyalty songs are fake
I'll screw my only brother for even a glimpse at a piece of the cake
We only cry in private here behind the shuttered glass
When we think of the charge of this brigade, the severing of the past

On, on, on, cried the leaders at the back
We went galloping down the blackened hills
And into the gaping trap
The bridges are burnt behind us and there's waiting guns ahead
Into the valley of death rode the brave hundreds

The north star always guides me
When winter skies are gray
And I wait for the sun when all ate one
I shall not betray
Calling at me
I'm waiting when all are led astray

Carry On my sons forever
Carry On when I am gone
Carry On for when the day is long
Forever Carry On
For as long as we together
Then forever Carry On

Darkness all around us
We don't close our eyes
No one's gonna ground us
We were born to fly
Comin' at us no stopping
Born to amplify

Carry On my sons forever
Carry On when I am gone
Carry On for when the day is long
Forever Carry On
For as long as we together
Then forever Carry On

Yea, be my brother
Fight to stay alive
All the world can't change us
With all their burned-out jive
Come get us now we're waiting
We won't ride and hide

Carry On my sons forever
Carry On when I am gone
Carry On for when the day is long
Forever Carry On
For as long as we together
Then forever Carry On

Now we're all together
Let's sing a fighting song
One hundred thousand riders
We can't all be wrong
Comin' at us no stopping
Always Carry On

Carry On my sons forever
Carry On when I am gone
Carry On for when the day is long
Forever Carry On
For as long as we together
Then forever Carry On