Red Earth Lyrics - New Model Army

The rock is made of diamond, the rivers wash with gold 

The sun beats down in rhythm, pounding on our reason 

Pounding on our reason, ringing in our skulls 

Sometimes this land looks empty - it plays so many tricks on you 

The soil of dried blood-sown with seed of people 

Overrun with armies that grow out of the earth 

They flow down from the mountains, sring out of the ground 

The shacks they all have numbers 

The dirt tracks run in straight lines 

Vanity and uselessness, the minds of prison guards 

Praying on a Sunday, dressed up in our finest 

Any god is welcome - any god that will come 

To give back what was taken, take back what was given 

Blood and death and sacrifice, the curse of wasting plagne 

And all the beauty tainted and east of Eden cast 

Children walking bare foot in the golden dust 

Boys with blinding eyes, perfect skin and bible names 

Machetes and AKs, perfect skin and bible names 

Machetes and AKs, perfect skin and bible names 

Take back what was taken, take back what was taken 

Take back what was taken, machetes and Aks 

All the waiting, all the walking all the miles 

All the working in the fields and in the mines 

In the orchards of the rulers 

Bring us cure, bring us deliverance from evil 

From the sins of all the fathers 

Bring us water, bring us vengeance, bring us power 

Catch a sound in the dead of the nihgt 

The clicked triggers of security lights 

By the pool where the shadows stir..silent, silent 

Through the scented garden moving in 

By the waving of the skeleton trees..closer and closer 

and through the doors and through the walls and...