Tank Park Salute Lyrics

The song Tank Park Salute is performed by Billy Bragg in the album named Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg in the year 2003 .



Kiss me goodnight and say my prayers
Leave the light on at the top of the stairs
Tell me the names of the stars up in the sky
A tree taps on the window pane
That feeling smothers me again
Daddy, is it true that we all have to die?

At the top of the stairs is darkness
At the top of the stairs is darkness

I closed my eyes and when I looked
Your name was in the memorial book
And what had become of all the things we planned
I accepted the commiserations
Of all your friends and your relations
But there's some things I still don't understand

You were so tall, how could you fall?

Some photographs of a summer's day
A little boy's lifetime away
Is all I've left of everything we've done
Like a pale moon in a sunny sky
Death gazes down as I pa*s by
To remind me that I'm but my father's son

I offer up to you, this tribute
I offer up to you, this tank park salute



Billy Bragg - Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg

Oct 2003

  1. St Swithin's Day
  2. Levi Stubbs' Tears
  3. Walk Away Renee
  4. Greetings To The New Brunette
  5. There Is Power In A Union
  6. Help Save The Youth Of America
  7. The Warmest Room
  8. Must I Paint You A Picture
  9. Valentine's Day Is Over
  10. Sexuality
  11. Cindy Of 1000 Lives
  12. Moving The Goalposts
  13. Tank Park Salute
  14. You Woke Up My Neighbourhood
  15. Accident Waiting To Happen (Red Stars Version)
  16. Sulk
  17. Upfield
  18. The Fourteenth Of February
  19. Brickbat
  20. The Space Race Is Over
  21. The Boy Done Good
  22. Ingrid Bergman
  23. Way Over Yonder In The Morning Key
  24. My Flying Saucer
  25. All You Fascists Bound To Lose (Blokes Version)
  26. NPWA
  27. St. Monday
  28. Somedays I See The Point
  29. Take Down The Union Jack (Band Version)

Tank Park Salute