The Ballad of the Red Flame Lily

歌詞

On this day all the trees in Rhodesia are aflame As the eyes of the griever With flowers of aching replete And my mind's overflowing with vengeance For to pine is not an occupation but a sentence And in time we will all be faking retrat Have you got rid of it yet? This faith corroded with neglect Can we ever hide the hurt? At least at night the harvest sun's yoke Is rising like rebel smoke Beyond the oceans in swirls And it will shame us now And it will shame us still It was wrong to come here I was wrong to come here What a hollow promise from hollow men What a shallow grave for shallow men You're the bull that paws the earth The leopard that teaches to run You're the crocodile that eats the sun So we walk on through and beyond the failures of men And we know there's a void at the centre of everything