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A train found its way off the tracks tonight
spewed debris far and wide mile on mile
the driver thrown clear, looked at the starry sky as he bled out slowly.
the sirens cut through the cold April air
woke the sleeping in the city nearby
you should have heard them cursing for the world outside
about the same time, oh the driver died
chorus
where did we all go wrong
don't tell me now, I don't want to know
the truth might hurt and oh it might effect me
so I close my eyes and lock myself away
the TV news shows a distant war tonight
its not our land they are not our homes, so its not our fight
there's a traffic jam on state highway 5
and a leader in the Hague, he's telling ten thousand lies
so lay abandoned all the things that we could have become
a new high every minute, no thought for the long run.
can we stop the flow of these ever growing rage
its like breaking the world open, turning night time into day
chorus
oh I lock myself away...
oh we, we will not be moved
we're stuck here in our ways
in perfect bliss of everything in a hundred different ways
let the martyrs have their ways and we will have our kingdoms
we will have our kingdoms
where did we all go wrong
don't tell me now, I don't want to know
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Geronimo
03:25
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Geronimo where did you go
Across the border to Mexico
White men with their loaded guns
They will hunt you down
Oh ow
Sitting Bull where di you go
To Canada in the winter snow
white men with their loaded guns
Chorus
Oh I big chief
I will make the white man weep
Oh I many gun
I will make the white man run
Oh gathered nations our land
a darkened cloud comes overhead
white man on his iron horse
they will see our end
oh bury me next to my kin walk the world, tell them I was brave.
pray my soul will rise again, walk the world and tell them I was brave.
chorus
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Into the mines
03:28
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Well they've spoken, all about it
on the wire, on the line
that the last days, of these miner-men
are closing, in on time
the grey-tone overburden, in the mountain , it will stay
and the pipe dreams, of the pioneers, they start turning, down in their graves
Chorus
Oh they'll never go down, back into the mines
Well they languish, on the streets yeah
they are praying for the sound
of a freight train, running onward
to the run down part of town
well they are fighters never hide it
live their whole lives at the seam
and the coal face, of this wicker-man
is burning, down in a heap
chorus
Well they will not , go so gentle
its the only work they know
well they're knee deep in the coal dirt
oh these mines they, are their homes
well they're brought up, on the thermal
oh they've laboured on the coke
til their bones they, lay in good ground
oh as miners they'll be known.
chorus.
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Raised by wolves
02:40
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Street car rolled itself onto the shoulder
gravel scars they point towards the open wounds
find another way to independence
everything is lost with everything to prove
chorus
they were raised by wolves
what's the point ever trying to say it
the record has been broken only half a million times
nothing that they do will ever change it
everything is lost when everything is wild
bridge
there's a promise in this scene tonight
just waiting to be thrown
where it goes
no one knows
save the curse for anything above us
holding onto hope, but barely hanging on
fading out of sight and into darkness
everything is lost
everything is won
chorus
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Ben Armistad Christchurch, New Zealand
Ben Armistad.
Christchurch based Singer songwriter.
All works written and performed by Ben Armistad
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