Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Northern Fires (Guernica), artist - Silent Planet.
Date of issue: 01.11.2018
Song language: English
Northern Fires (Guernica) |
Ration my breath - Terror clandestine in my chest |
Mangled, I lay on a foreign forest floor |
Caught in an instant, divided by distance |
Alone in the fray, clutching my trigger, I pray |
As I make amends with death on a distant shore |
Such is the fate of the nation-state |
Despite the myths, they propagate |
The narrative never fits the crime |
Democracy’s died this death a thousand times |
The masses kneel before the golden cross |
Held by the priest who bows at the feet of the king |
We stand alone in the dust of what could be |
Fighting to find our humanity |
Bury me with my name in an unmarked grave |
Another casualty to the vanity of history |
The war marches on after the killing ends |
Take our lives - colonize our minds |
I’ve been digging through timelines, historical bylines; |
I find the fatal flaw in our design lies |
Between thoughts we had and words we knew |
Between what we’re told and what is true |
Who fuels the fascist? |
A classist— inculcating the masses in passes |
Under the contrived |
Countenance of contrition |
The victor writes the story |
More often burns the manuscript |
Set fire to a pyre cremate the crimes that they commit |
But the flames kept us warm |
So we bit our tongues and tasted scorn |
The bitter stench of finite men |
Betrayed by the thieves they swore to defend |
The bell will toll |
And in the end, lay only the echoes of |
What could have been |
We stand alone in the dust of what could be |
Fighting to find our humanity |
We stand alone in the dust of what could be |
Nothing we fought for will set us free |
Throw myself, headlong, to the jaws of the beast |
The war machine that feeds for eternity |
Throw myself headlong into the jaws of the beast |
The war machine that turns for eternity |
Throw myself, headlong, to the jaws of the beast |
The war machine that feeds for eternity |
Throw myself headlong into the jaws of the beast |
The war machine that turns for eternity |