Few of the sins of the father   Are visited upon the son   Hearts have been hard   Hands have been clenched into fists too long      Our sons need never be soldiers   Our daughters will never need guns   These are the years between   These are the years that were hard fought and won      Now, contracts torn at the edges   Old signatures stained with tears   Seasons of war and grace   These should not be forgotten years      Still it aches like tetanus   It reeks of politics   How many dreams remain?   This is a feeling too strong to contain      The hardest years is the darkest years   Is the roarin' years, the fallen years   These should not be forgotten years      The hardest years, the wildest years   The desperate and divided years   We will remember   (These should not be forgotten years)      Our shoreline was never invaded   Our country was never in flames   This is the calm we breathe   This is a feeling too strong to contain      Still it aches like tetanus   It reeks of politics   Signatures stained with tears   Who can remember? We've got to remember      The hardest years, the darkest years   The roarin' years, the fallen years   These should not be forgotten years      The hardest years, the wildest years   The desperate and divided years   We will remember   (These should not be forgotten years)      I said it's the hardest years, the darkest years   The roarin' years, the fallen years   These should not be forgotten years      The hardest years, the wildest years   The desperate and divided years   We will remember   (These should not be forgotten years)      Forsaking, aching, breaking years   The time and tested heartbreak years   Who needs your mother sing to you now      The blinded years, the binded years   The desperate and divided years   These should not be forgotten years   (These should not be forgotten years)   Remember   Oh, we will try