Grim Travellers Lyrics - Rumours Of Glory - Bruce Cockburn

Ministers meet -- work on the movement of goods 

Also work on the movement of capital 

Also work on the movement of human beings 

As if we were so many cattle 

Grim travellers in dawn skies 

See the beauty -- makes you cry inside 

Makes you angry and you don't know why 

Grim travellers in dawn skies 

Twelve mercenaries got weapons primed 

Gonna take that African nation in record time 

You wonder why they bother, why not leave it alone 

They say, "Every man wants to retire to a place he can call his own" 

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Those grim travellers in dawn skies 

See the beauty -- makes them cry inside 

Makes them angry and they don't know why 

Grim travellers in dawn skies 

Redness, richer than a rose 

Blooms against the backdrop of somebody's white clothes 

Bitter little girls and boys from the Red Army Underground 

They'd blow away Karl Marx if he had the nerve to come around 

They're just grim travellers in dawn skies 

See the beauty -- makes them cry inside 

Makes them angry and they don't know why 

They're grim travellers in dawn skies 

Down on the plain of 10,000 smokestacks 

Trucks butt each other to establish dominance 

The newspaper next to me leans over and says matter-of-factly 

"Sacred mountains towers above meadows" - uh huh - and above us 

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Grim travellers in dawn skies 

I see the beauty -- makes me cry inside 

It makes me angry and I don't know why 

We're grim travellers in dawn skies