text: They flutter behind you your possible pasts
  Some bright-eyed and crazy, some frightened and lost
  A warning to anyone still in command
  “Ranks! Fire”
  Of their possible future, to take care
  In derelict sidings the poppies entwine
  With cattle trucks lying in wait for the next time
  Do you remember me? How we used to be?
  Do you think we should be closer?
  She stood in the doorway, the ghost of a smile
  Haunting her face like a cheap hotel sign
  Her cold eyes imploring the men in their Macs
  For the gold in their bags or the knives in their backs
  Stepping up boldly one put out his hand
  He said, “I was just a child then, now I’m only a man.”
  Do you remember me? How we used to be?
  Do you think we should be closer?
  By the cold and religious we were taken in hand
  Shown how to feel good and told to feel bad
  (Tongue tied and terrified we learned how to pray
  Now our feelings run deep and cold as the clay)
  Strung out behind us the banners and flags
  Of our possible pasts lie in tatters and rags
  Do you remember me? How we used to be?
  Do you think we should be closer?