The Unknown Soldier

I am an old soldier

I've been in the wars

Backwards and forwards,

Creeping on all fours

And I travel the pulses

Unseen and alone

Dogfights in the cosmos

Feeling the unknown

And I laugh in my sleep

Sitting in the gutter

Picking dog-ends from the deep

I am an old soldier

I see in your face

Times repeating

Uniforms in space

Looking forward to Doomsday

Telepathy wars

Dogma daydreams

Imaginary doors

And I laugh in my sleep

Sitting in the gutter

Picking dog-ends from the deep

But in the night a little boy is dreaming mysteries

And looking after laughter with his sister climbing trees

And somewhere there's a button and a silent satellite

And a bastard who would press it and an everlasting night

I'd hunt him like a tiger and I'd tear him to a shred

There's nowhere you can hide man

Me and the kids we'd feed you to the dead

And I cry in my sleep

For all the hungry children

And the unbelieving sheep.