They're Lying Beneath You - Bandcamp Link
This song is about the dead brought about by conquest and ideology.
Lyrics:
The cold earth
packs the bodies neat
lined up
feet placed by feet
young men
lost in their prime
the old ones
gone before their time
they're lying beneath you
they're lying beneath you
A Cold eye
takes in the scene
the dog barks
and the orders are sent fleeing
The human beings
are dragged from the herd
one by one
to a chamber for rebirth
they're lying beneath you
in shallow graves
of skulls and bones
they're lying beneath you
to take their place
among the stones
they're lying beneath you
I am the grass
I cover all
they're lying beneath you
the years pass
and the memories, they grow fleet
but the pain lasts
and the tumour it grows deep
the great ones
use their talent well
to tell the world
this couldnt happen now
still lying beneath you
in shallow graves of fresh laid bones
their lying around you
their buried down beneath your homes
their lying beneath you
I am the grass let me work
their lying beneath you
Inspired partly by Carl Sandburgs poem, Grass:
Pile the bodies high at Austelitz and Waterloo
Shovel them under and let me work.
I am the grass: I cover all
Pile them high at Gettysburg
And pile them high at Ypress and Verdun
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, Ten years, and passangers ask the
conductor:
What place is this?
Where are we now?
I am the grass.
Let me work.