Human Alchemy Lyrics - Andy Partridge

An alchemy, human alchemy 

We stole them from their freedom to be sold 

To turn their skins of black into the skins 

Of brightest gold 

An alchemy, human alchemy 

We stoked the fires of trade with human coals 

And made our purses from the flailed skins of 

Purest souls 

An alchemy, human alchemy 

Other lands became a larder full of all the good things 

All we had to do was go and take 

Blood the colour rain that grew our wicked harvest 

Black the colour icing on our cake 

An alchemy, human alchemy 

We stole their babes and mothers, chiefs and braves 

Although we held the whip, you knew we were 

The real slaves 

To alchemy, human alchemy