Lyrics Future Shade - The Herd

Future Shade

Planted in the summer, blooming in the spring
You may not like the harvest or what the fruits bring
You don’t own this thing, you don’t own this garden
When you shake the tree down, you don’t know what you started
You who plants the seed ('cause you don’t know what you started)
Never to enjoy the shade (no, you don’t know what you started)
The tree that brings the change (no, you don’t know what you started)
Your work is not in vain
Now we just want you to fly
The feeling of freedom when you democratise
Join us up in the sky, boy, that means that you’re alive
Trust us on it, crack some eggs to make the omelette
Better that than bomb it, baby, this is springtime, look at what we got potted
Tree will bear what we wanted I hope, the plant that we install is my vote
If not then sniper and murder she wrote, got it
Locked in, your type of awe seems shocking
With a headshot on a head of state, your peace can devastate
Our peace can’t wait for a moment, thought we owned it
The truth hurt, ruffled the hem of a blue skirt
Then forgotten back to the well to drink the poison water
Freedom doesn’t begin in springtime like it ought to
Planted in the summer, blooming in the spring
You may not like the harvest or what the fruits bring
You don’t own this thing, you don’t own this garden
When you shake the tree down, you don’t know what you started
You who plants the seed ('cause you don’t know what you started)
Never to enjoy the shade (no, you don’t know what you started)
The tree that brings the change (no, you don’t know what you started)
Your work is not in vain
And God knows that we’ll be righteous
When were taming the tigris, do you get it?
We get it whether or not, we don’t care if we get invited
We’re dealing with tyrants, hamas surprises
Yes, they won, still we will not let them democratise it
And the uprisings and who to pick a side with
Do a deal or fight with, what we want is sidekicks and what we have is violence
You labelled freedom fighters insurgents in Guantanamo
When justice ain’t been just since geronimo
Cross-border raids to demonstrate the rule’s fluid
Which is pretty much the same way our supreme leaders do it
So tell me, what kind of enduring freedom is this?
That leaves a million bleeding or buried beneath the grit
Then there comes a day
When the ground work was laid
Our hearts and heads were strong
We couldn’t wait any longer
Then there comes a night
When the dark steals the light
The cycles will go on
You made us wait even longer
You who plants the seed (you made us wait even longer)
You made us wait even longer
The tree that brings the change (you made us wait even longer)
You made us wait even longer
The moon will only rise when the people so desire
Yet the sun will fall on an empire, defending her pride
Yo, we’re tired of the masks, people tired of the zig zags
And we’re sick of the myth of the good guy, who is that?
Your flag is up in flames, the claims of liberators are bitter statements
When on their say so, planes deliver their payload
And on the ground the people rage, they’re on the phone and tweeting change
The page they’re writing into history ain’t the same, they want to sign their
name there
For the masses gathered in the main square
Shouting down the despot, and crowding round the death squad
A day so many dreamed of, remember what the seed was
The struggle and the sacrifice to keep the hope alive
When they
Planted in the summer, blooming in the spring
You may not like the harvest or what the fruits bring
You don’t own this thing, you don’t own this garden
When you shake the tree down, you don’t know what you started
You who plants the seed ('cause you don’t know what you started)
Never to enjoy the shade (no, you don’t know what you started)
The tree that brings the change (no, you don’t know what you started)
Your work is not in vain
You who plants the seed
Never to enjoy the shade
The tree that brings the change
Your work is not in vain