And what good is prayer
When the gods have spoken?
Innocents fallen like tenpins,
Their only requiem
The fading of the tide
And the drums of foreign war.
What of love,
What of faith,
What of altruism?
But petty words in a world
That will never care.
In death as in life -
Overlooked, a statistic
For the front page,
After sports are finished.
Shed a tear for the fallen.
If not us, then who will remember?
When the gods have spoken?
Innocents fallen like tenpins,
Their only requiem
The fading of the tide
And the drums of foreign war.
What of love,
What of faith,
What of altruism?
But petty words in a world
That will never care.
In death as in life -
Overlooked, a statistic
For the front page,
After sports are finished.
Shed a tear for the fallen.
If not us, then who will remember?