I close my eyes - I reach out my hand

And there you are - beautiful in scabs

Caressing my scalp - under the mounts of the gun towers

I shout your name - I kick out in dreams

And here we are - the searchlight beams

The siren squeals - and hopeless shuffle to certainty



The crab lice bite - the typhoid smells

And I still here - handsome in rags

A trouserless man - waiting helpless for dignity



Come to me angel, don't go to the showers

Beg, steal or borrow - now there's nothing left to take

Except eternity



And who will come - to flower our graves?

With us still here - covered with dust

Remembered by few but forgotten by the majority



Stay with me angel - don't get lost in history

Don't let all we suffered lose it's meaning in the dark

That we call memory