Requiem for a Dying Song

There's a government whip

Cracked across your back

Where the order of the day

Is don't listen attack

See the blood run down

In your bushwhacked down

Revolution is the gimmick

Of a jokerless clown

Another volley's just the ammo

For the taxman's gun



Talk, don't talk if you've nothin' to say

Walk, don't walk if your feet don't know the way



In requiem for a dying song

Hear the shimmy and the shake

From a futile war

With the sun that lights the day

Brings the darkness and the prize

Of another great shame

But with you my love, with you my love

With you I will return

In requiem for a dying song



Grab the barrel by the face

Shoot the order, release

Shove the bullet in your pocket

Turn away and retreat

See the terror in the eye

Of a bloodshot child

With only rubble in his belly

And the promise of lies

Operation liberation, tell me you can decide



Talk, don't talk if you've nothing to say

Walk, don't walk if your feet don't know the way



In requiem for a dying song

Hear the shimmy and the shake

Of a futile war

With the sun that lights the day

Brings the darkness and the prize

Of another great shame

But with you my love, with you my love

With you I will return

In requiem for a dying song



Agony from every corner

On every street

Ignite their loss of self

With their bitterness... explode... explode



There's a government whip

cracked across your back

Where the order of the day

Is don't listen attack



Talk, don't talk if you've nothin' to say

Walk, don't walk if your feet don't know the way



In requiem for a dying song

Hear the shimmy and the shake

From a futile war

With the sun that lights the day

Brings the darkness and the prize

Of another great shame

But with you my love, with you my love

With you I will return

In requiem for a dying song

With you my love

With you I will return

In requiem for a dying song