The Final Fanfare

 What will they sing when the music is gone?

When the bands are all silent, the choirs have no song?

What will they march to and how will they dance? 

If the Arts are destroyed and not given a chance.

How will the babies be lulled into rest?

If creative is useless and won't pass the test. 

What will we do with the royal Albert hall? 

If musicians are made to feel worthless and small. 

"Who really needs music? Eh? 

What is it for?"

This powerful language that can transcend war! 

"It's nonsense and frippery, arty and trite!"

But it's often the songs that have won us the fight.

They're dismantling talent, eroding our worth

Saying music and art has no place on this earth

And in decades to come we will hear they were wrong

As we struggle to live in a world without song.