Look to the north, look to the east, look to the west and south
On all horizons storm clouds loom and roll across the sky
The river bursts its banks and vomits soil into the mouth
As thunder breaks the silence, a young child cries!
Between the night
And the days first light
The leaders made a pact
To raise the rotting corpse of war
And set the wheels in motion
The stage a heaving battlefield
Would support the final act
While the authors hide in satellites
Or forts beneath the ocean
And in this play
We’re cast as fools
To blindly play
By others’ rules
Now the dust has settled
And the stench completely clear
Then return the victors
To claim their wretched crown
But from the fleshheaps of the slain
There comes no cheer
Their game is over
The chips are down
You arrived like a breath
From the angel of death
Famine, disease and a life on your knees
Guaranteed
When you put them in power
Lyrics And Music; Amebix
From The Album: Arise
Declaration Of Opinion 