Neutral Zone, Romulan View
Words and music by Leslie Fish © 1976


Am         C          G     F  E
Gods of my ancestors, guide my hands,
F                   G
Here on the borders of our sky;
Am                  G          F
Guarding beyond our known home lands,
E                                 Am
Give me the strength to fight and die.

Am          C          G     F  E
Somewhere beyond these ranks of stars
F                        G
Fly strange ships of our alien foe,
Am                        G      F
Armed with knowledge that is not ours,
E                           Am
Steered by ethics we do not know.

Am       C           G     F  E
Many the years since first we met
F                         G
And clashed in the normal ways of war.
Am                         G          F
They could have conquered; they might yet.
E                                       Am
We still don't know what they spared us for.

Am             C            G    F  E
Fiercely their strong ships beat us back,
F                           G
Yet all they asked was that war should cease.
Am                       G      F
Cunning and courage they do not lack. . . .
E                                  Am
Look:  they have power but sue for peace.

Am        C            G  F   E
And so we watch on the border here
F                     G
For unknown dangers beyond our sky,
Am                G        F
In unadmitted but constant fear.
E                                  Am
Great gods, why did they spare us--why?