Abney Park – Building The Walls
One hundred years ago isn’t long Would you be blamed for another’s wrong Generations claiming retribution While your poets & your prophets are yelling “execution” 1st chorus Who’s building the walls...
One hundred years ago isn’t long Would you be blamed for another’s wrong Generations claiming retribution While your poets & your prophets are yelling “execution” 1st chorus Who’s building the walls...
I wish i could breath, i wish i could stand. I wish i had a chance here holding your hand. Wish i could speak, i wish could talk I wish...
Chorus And i need you And i grieve you, darlinAnd i bleed you But...
I see the world with my eyes open I see the world through lidless eyes I see a world that is sick with self-loathing Nothing in the nothing to mystify Chorus...
Dead silence falls a cascading shower of indifference Isolation calls no self-acceptance, no means for honest reverence Into the void self-annihilation, futilistic egotism Until now i’ve toyed with what seems...
Across from me sat the new emperor, hardly 13 And i asked him why he cried No one stays around anymore, i cannot guess why In my world they should try I...
Just like the one my father took And i pass over the walls I see the people as i look I see there’s the block For folks with purple skin There’s...
Should i start by saying that we all lived in fear, from day to week to month to year? Or should i start by saying that our food ran sort,...
I have marched, For years on end. My comrades fell, As i defend, The goals i set. My armies fled, Fell as they ran, Trampled our dead. Rush, back through the...
Death hue falling on the faces of the streets lost children as the mortar fire broken in. Nights cold, slipping through the cracks, Breaking through the cracks of crumbling plaster....
I fell to my knees, Down in the mire, I felt the heat, My feet were in the fire, I yelled “lord please!” I stared to perspire, The lord shook the...
Once i was complete, The earth, firm, under my feet, My back was strong, my body fleet, Now i ache allover. I learned each virtue i was told I worked hard...
Spare my life, I’m another reborn Another year of strife, Another child of scorn (2x) Chorus My only sin Was not to give my soul to you How could you Ask...
I do not belong in this life I do not belong in this house I do not belong in this job I do not belong in this world (2x) I feel...
Bring a line of the people Bring down, scoop ’em up. Take the life from the people, ...
All these roots run deep, And this tree is old, This trunk is rotten ...
I wake each night into this nightmare Only to find that the worst is clear I have to...
From the day she was born they brought her to it It had opaque walls & a lid locked tight She spent all of her life picturing what was inside...
A heroine, a deity On heroin, or vanity To jack their personality Beyond normal humanity. A crowd of massed humanity, Bow and worship diligently. He’s built a loyal following And they...
Black rivers hard as stone, lined with corpses of our own Through the bloodied trees, carving though our canopies Through the forest, cutting through the forest floor (Scars of man, furrows...