Here Comes The War 4 27 Lyrics - Singles - New Model Army

(Sullivan/Heaton/Nelson) 

Today, as you listen to this song, another 394,000 children 

were born into this world....they break like waves of 

hunger and desire upon these eroded shores....carrying 

the curses of history and a history yet unwritten....the oil 

burns in thick black columns, the buzz saws echo through 

the forest floor....they shout give us our fair share, 

give us justice.... 

....here comes the war 

On a grey morning to the south of here two young men in 

makeshift uniforms peer into the misty light....and 

figures dart behind the trees as a snap of rifle rounds 

echoes out across the fields....well they hardly know their 

sacred mother tongue....but they know their duty to defend 

the flag hanging limp and bloody above the village church.... 

while a thousand miles away in a warehouse complex down by 

the river....young money men play paintball games.... 

....here comes the war 

Put out the lights on the age of reason.... 

Blow out the candle and tell us another of those great stories.... 

the ones about serial killers....let dreams flow into savage 

times....do you hear the sirens scream across the city, 

we've had three hot nights in succession....the riot season is 

here again....dear lord lead us back into the valley of the 

shadow of death.... 

....here comes the war 

Did you think we were born in peaceful times?... 

Faster, faster....like a whirling dervish spinning round.... 

faster, faster....till the centre cannot hold....faster, faster.... 

You screamed give us liberty or give us death 

Now you've got both, what do you want next?.... 

....here comes the war 

Put out the lights on the age of reason