[To be sung to the tune of Badlands by Metal Church.]
I
drive alone
The towns that
I cross
Will suffer in the strife, it
will be just another loss.
I
feel a blood wind, hate is in its eye
The flames light up the
night, peace it is a lie.
Hell
or heaven, it's all pretend
We
just stumble on till the end.
As
the world feigns its shock so hard, the facts have all been changed
The
villains are now the heroes, lying again.
A highway lined with corpses,
you can't go astray
These are the Deathlands, to
flee there is no way.
Empty
talk about Freedom, Democracy all again
Free
Enterprise and Holy Jihad, it's corrupt and in vain.
Just the greed for power,
that they all deny
The cities blaze in the
night, the children bleed and cry.
The
drones that circle, in the metal sky
Looking
for victims, to murder for a lie
Weddings and families, lives
blown away
At the pressing of a button,
video game at play.
Will
this bloodshed never end?
Will
I live to bury my very last friend?
As
the world feigns its shock so hard, knowledge has been changed
The
villains are called the heroes, lying again.
A highway lined with corpses,
you can't go astray
These are the Deathlands, to
flee there is no way.
Still we’re
stumbling onwards, fighting till we die
The sorrow we
cause unending, the earth bleeds and cries
Perhaps when
we’re extinct, the world will heal its own
And then in our
defeat, the Deathlands will have won.
As
the world feigns its shock so hard, history has been changed
The
villains pose as the heroes, lying again.
A highway lined with corpses,
you can't go astray
These are the Deathlands, to
flee there is no way.
Copyright B Purkayastha 2014
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I don't know heavy metal at all, blame my age I suppose. We have made Deathlands out of so much of the world, including, right now, the piece of land called Iraq, Syria. The image is horrifying and heartbreaking. So much is.
ReplyDeleteThe world feigns its shock - then turns the channel. Thanks for keeping it on, Bill.
Your words are wonderful, but it may shock you to know that I'm unfamiliar with the oeuvre of Metal Church.
ReplyDeleteYou could start here.
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