Pendragon - Kowtow lyrics

1928 Saigon
A heavy monsoon took a grip on the Mekong
There was something wrong
An air of fear In a colonised land
Started off by some offbeat coolie gang
1968 Saigon, the sound of rotary blades
Birds of prey family men led astray
There was something wrong
Biting their lips in the ranks
Nervously glancing at the tanks rolling
Off the gang planks
Can we make it pay, can we make it safe?
Can we make things clear on the new frontier
I don't wish to worry you

But an the mud and the madness
The bullets riddled this place with
A history of sadness
The unsung heroes struck a chord deep in me
I was maybe six or seven when I saw it on TV
Just Buddy and Charlie and you on your own
Some guns and a six pack
And a patched up radio
No sense no sanity, is it safe to go alone?
No loving arms like you got back home
Did you do the right thing?
Did you do the right thing?

(come on where's the fighting
Spirit? dry your tears)
There's a man spitting poison at
A girl 'bout seventeen
With a gun held at her head
To blow away her dreams
And I sometimes start to wonder if
There's any hope at all
And after two world wars
You'd have thought we'd learnt by now
There are too many madmen in this world
Too may trigger happy weirdos
And the tears she cried
Streaming down her face
For a million unsung heroes

We're all loners in this world
Always waiting for the lid to blow
And if the time it takes, takes too long
Then it's off to fight we go
And at night I search my thoughts
For any sanity left at all
And after three world wars
There'll be no one left at all
We felt like pioneers in
The fields of Tonking
We fought for all those years in
The blood and the tears
We felt like pioneers on the west frontier
(to be free)