Deep Dark Waters

Album: Come Ahead (2024)
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  • Echoes from the past
    Day by day reminders
    We swore "they shall not pass"
    I fear the worst shall surely find us
    The future bent and spent
    In dark enlightenment
    The "people they have spoken"
    The serpents egg cracked open
    Bodies washed up on the beach
    Children drowning out of reach
    Hear the children cry
    This ship is sailing
    Into deep dark waters
    All systems are failing
    We go like cattle to the slaughter
    To the slaughter
    Shadows from the past
    Cancelling the future
    We thought we'd seen the last
    Of the Euro high class butchers
    The fate of mice and men
    We're sleepwalking again
    Into a mess of our own making
    The barricades are shaking
    This time in business suits
    Not in helmets or jackboots
    Pull the trees out by the roots
    And shake the ground with thunder
    This ship is sailing
    Into deep dark waters
    All systems are failing
    We go like cattle to the slaughter
    To the slaughter

    Our fortress continent
    Our values torn and bent
    We bomb and when they run
    We tell them they can't come
    Just like in World War two
    We showed no pity on the Jews
    We othered them as well
    Abandoned them to hell
    "They're not welcome here"
    "send them all back there"
    Where's the enlightenment
    Our crime, their punishment?
    Our fortress continent
    Built on Colonial theft
    Our European mess...
    This ship is sailing
    Into deep dark waters
    All systems are failing
    We go like cattle to the slaughter
    To the slaughter Writer/s: Andrew Innes, Bobby Gillespie, David Holmes
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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