Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Spoils of Victory, artist - Amebix.
Date of issue: 02.11.2014
Song language: English
Spoils of Victory |
Look to the north, look to the east, look to the west and south |
On all horizons storm clouds loom and roll across the sky |
The river bursts its banks and vomits soil into the mouth |
As thunder breaks the silence, a young child cries! |
Between the night and the days first light the leaders made a pact |
To raise the rotting corpse of war and set the wheels in motion |
The stage a heaving battlefield would support the final act |
While the authors hide in satellites or forts beneath the ocean |
And in this play We’re cast as fools |
To blindly play By others' rules |
Now the dust has settled and the stench completely clear |
Then return the victors to claim their wretched crown |
But from the fleshheaps of the slain, there comes no cheer |
Their game is over, the chips are down |
You arrived like a breath from the angel of death |
Famine, disease and a life on your knees, guaranteed |
When you put them in power |