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Our Land

from Free Radicals by Primeval Soup

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Our Land

As I walk these lonely streets I wonder to myself
‘What if I’d been born in days of old?’
When man was not a traitor to his kin or Mother Nature
In a time before the earth was sold

And as I stand upon the sand I cry and ask the question ‘why?’
The wild green earth must wear this curse and die

I long for our past existence
When life was more than resistance
As I extend these battered hands
Come join me in the fire
Of the systems funeral pyre
And when I shout whose land you cry our land

When mountains crumble to the sea and the final tree is felled
No bird song left to fill the evening air
Just TV screens and distant screams
Of children running scared

And as I stand upon the sand I cry and dream of pictures on a postcard
The caption reads ‘save our trees’ but now they’re only memories

I long for our past exist
When life was more than resistance
As I extend these battered hands
Come join me in the fire
Of the systems funeral pyre
And when I shout whose land you cry our land

It plagues me every waking hour and haunts me in my dreams
Our children face a bleak and lifeless earth
Unless there is respect there will be nothing left
As we give second thoughts to giving birth

But there will always be those who say
That ‘I will stand in your way’
And to fight to live in a better day
Every dog must have its day
And when you’re gone I’ll etch these lines
Into your sons and daughters minds
So spare a thought for the countryside
For death will not excuse your crimes

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from Free Radicals, released July 6, 2013

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Formerly Brighton's longest running and laziest anarchoprogdubskapunkfuckyou band. Now residing all over the shop in the good, clean and honest south of England. Keeping it vaguely real since 2009.

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