Mocking Birds lyrics

In their honour the dedicated wept

In their memory the vigilence kept

The nights are long the dawn does break

To find us all again still awake

With wounds without and so within

Our stares out into the deafening din

We keep our watch for they are gone

For those who's missions are now done

But the trivial and the trite

Mocking the their lifelong plight

To attempt to gain an attentive crowd

Mindless inexperience shouts so loud

They ran away and sat right down

To remain there still, safe and sound

It's a truly shame there should be

And woe unrestrained n'er to see

For those who would ply and poke

In a land that they long forsook

Then to belittle, babble, and brim

Where ignorance breeds dark and dim

We light the candles to speak true

We stand side by side, we always do

They live with us, they do not die

Because they sacrificed, still we cry

For memories so endearing, so alive, so glad

For their departure, their mortal end, so sad

The worst, and the best to keep for life

In silent moments, far beyond all the strife

We stand proud to have done, to have been

Others bow low, yet undone, and unseen

In silent reverence, or in memorable words

We will prevail against the mocking birds

For those without honour, can know no shame

They perch all alone, no song, no name