The Forgotten

Bobby wants to be a lawyer,
Chris a surgeon and
Aaron a pilot.
But...
Bobby has a stutter,
Chris a nervous twitch and
Aaron, well he just can't concentrate.
They are all inferior.
We fill their heads with lies, fairy tales and dreams deferred...
They can be what they want to be.
But, a lawyer speaks well,
Surgeons have steady hands and
Pilots have nerves of steel.
Turns out you can't defer a dream that which will never happen.
The boys are soldiers now, that's all they can be.
Even now they're misfits.
Not wanted where the want to be or where they're going...
The boys are dead now, died in a war.
They had dreams never realized never touched.
They had dreams impossible for them to ever touch.
We told them lies, we said "do it boy!"
Look at them now, six feet in the dirt.
Look at them now, how it must hurt...
To never get the chance to do what you truly love.
We gave them an illusion, we gave them hope.
We gave them the idea of a dream deferred.
Look at them now,
So much for that dream deferred.