The sun never sets The blood never dries The selfless sacrifice Of the butchers maligned The sun never sets The blood never dries Lest we forget
The sun never sets Teardrops never dry This deathless bloodshed Of the whetted knives For your sons you never wept The fruitless sacrifice Of the master butchers
Never trusted in the dark Pecuniary villeinage A decaying realm to rapine and plunder
Like maggots colonizing Contagious disease contaminating Expansionist plague to pillage & conquer
The union of cruciate & saltire The callous cruciate & saltire To beneficiate the graveyard of empire
In the name of his tyrannical majesty To serve the imperialist tragedy A cruel serving sovereignty A subjugating murderous monarchy
Recollections of the past, revised, laundered, tainted & poisoned But I'll raise a toast to the memory of those who served in the West African squadron Merciful overlords
In the name of diabolical oligarchy In the kingdom of demise rules supremacy Solipsistic crowned nobility Stern reigning gunboat diplomacy
Recollections of the past, revised, condemn, taint & poison But I'll raise my glass to the memory of the wretches who Served in the preventative squadron
I salute Those who tugged at the master butcher's apron strings
The sun never sets The blood never dried The fruitless sacrifice Of the butchers benign The sun it never sets The blood never dries Lest we forget That the master butchers still whet their knives