Lyrics: Tank Park Salute
Album: Don’t Try This At Home
Artist: Billy Bragg
 

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

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 pass 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