Abney Park - Holy War lyrics

Death hue falling on the
Faces of the streets'
Lost children as the mortar fire broke in
Nights cold
Slipping through the cracks -breaking through
The walls of crumbling plaster hunger gnaws
Feel it's claws but the pain of
A bullet would burn much hotter
In the spotlight mounted on the cannon
Of the tank that prowls

Holy war oh, deliver me
Rest my fear i cannot see

Nameless, but I know the faces of the
Kids I slept in Jezebel's lair with
Thoughtless, breaking my bread
'tween the mine
Fields flowers and gullies with daisies
Sometimes I can find some rations
That a soldier let
Fall when the wind of life left him
And sometimes I can find a gun or
A pistol or a knife to use holy war
Oh, deliver me rest my fear
I cannot see my eyes are blind
My body is lame my family is gone
In my god's name a holy war

A winter the UN high Commission for
Refugees says will be especially harsh
She's living in a borrowed room after
Her house and fields were
Burned in fighting between the Taliban
And the Northern Alliance
We need to feed our children

Nameless, faceless
But a tear and a dollar won't buy my justice
Fearless, clothed less then a war torn
Child should sleep or focus
Once I watched as a cannon
Shot fell through the
Stained glass window of a church on my street
Once I sat on a steeple now
Laying in the church yard's playground

Holy war oh, deliver me
Rest my fear i cannot see
My eyes are blind my body is lame
My family is gone in my god's name
A holy war

In an apparent increase in hostilities
Artillery explosions
Could be heard coming from the mountains
Thirty miles north of the city
Her children helping her
She carried the precious goods
Into their room on the outskirts of Jaffa
But finding the food to cook
Is a different story
People bleed to death dispossessed from over
20 years of war and upheaval
As evening fell, Taliban jets could be seen
Racing across the far north side, flying
Northward to the front lines of the
Ongoing civil war with their foe
The Northern Alliance
As fear of military conflict grows
So too does the desperation
Of the Afghan refugees