Bruce Cockburn - Where the Death Squad Lives lyrics
[Bruce Cockburn - Where the Death Squad Lives lyrics]
Goons in blackface creeping in the road
Farm family waiting for the night to explode
Working the land in an age of terror
You come to see the moon
As the bad news bearer
Down where the death squad lives
And they cut down people like
They cut down trees chop off it's head so it
Will stay on it's knees
The forest shrinks but the earth remains
Slash and burn and it grows again
Down where the death squad lives
I've got friends trying to
Batter the system down
Fighting the past till the future comes round
Never be a perfect world till
God declares it that way
But that don't mean there's nothing
We can do or say
Down where the death squad lives
Like some kind of never-ending Easter passion
From every agony a hero's fashioned
Around every evil there gathers love
Bombs aren't the only things
That fall from above
Down where the dead squad lives
Down where the dead squad lives
Sometimes I feel like there's a
Padlock on my soul
If you opened up my heart you'd
Find a big black hole
But when the feeling comes through
It comes through strong
If you think there's no difference
Between right and wrong
Just go down where the death squad lives
This world can be better than it is today
You can say I'm a dreamer but that's okay
Without the could-be and the might have-been
All you've got left is your fragile skin
And that ain't worth much down
Where the death squad lives
Down where the dead squad lives
Farm family waiting for the night to explode
Working the land in an age of terror
You come to see the moon
As the bad news bearer
Down where the death squad lives
And they cut down people like
They cut down trees chop off it's head so it
Will stay on it's knees
The forest shrinks but the earth remains
Slash and burn and it grows again
Down where the death squad lives
I've got friends trying to
Batter the system down
Fighting the past till the future comes round
Never be a perfect world till
God declares it that way
But that don't mean there's nothing
We can do or say
Down where the death squad lives
Like some kind of never-ending Easter passion
From every agony a hero's fashioned
Around every evil there gathers love
Bombs aren't the only things
That fall from above
Down where the dead squad lives
Down where the dead squad lives
Sometimes I feel like there's a
Padlock on my soul
If you opened up my heart you'd
Find a big black hole
But when the feeling comes through
It comes through strong
If you think there's no difference
Between right and wrong
Just go down where the death squad lives
This world can be better than it is today
You can say I'm a dreamer but that's okay
Without the could-be and the might have-been
All you've got left is your fragile skin
And that ain't worth much down
Where the death squad lives
Down where the dead squad lives