Welcome to the Poppy Show!
We make them appear everywhere now :
lamp-posts, billboards, compulsory lapels,
they'll be playing the Last Post
at an event near you
so bow your heads for heroes
in a minute's silence
again and again and again,
remembering though we forget.
Because only servicemen died
in wars, campaigns, insurrections
and the Troubles ( such an anodyne
word for all that suffering).
Bow your heads and please forget
civilians, freedom-fighters, protesters,
bystanders caught in cross-fire,
mistaken identities and mere suspects.
Join in with the Poppy Show
and march behind military bands,
the only ones who sacrificed themselves
were those with guns in their hands.
We make them appear everywhere now :
lamp-posts, billboards, compulsory lapels,
they'll be playing the Last Post
at an event near you
so bow your heads for heroes
in a minute's silence
again and again and again,
remembering though we forget.
Because only servicemen died
in wars, campaigns, insurrections
and the Troubles ( such an anodyne
word for all that suffering).
Bow your heads and please forget
civilians, freedom-fighters, protesters,
bystanders caught in cross-fire,
mistaken identities and mere suspects.
Join in with the Poppy Show
and march behind military bands,
the only ones who sacrificed themselves
were those with guns in their hands.
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