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White phosphorus light, herald of blight
Down from the northern sky tonight
Ancestral strife, hypocrisy rife
Distort into hunger for innocent life
Fathomless pain; shifting the blame
With every bomb they drop
Decay and starvation reign
Every day, ten children
Who will never walk again
The hour is late
Nowhere is safe
To go or to stay, it matters not
The tides won’t abate
Dripping with hate
They dance upon 20,000 graves
It goes on
Over and over
Over and over and over
Children enslaved
Stripped to their skin
And paraded like beasts
Through the glades
Slaughtered as babes
Dragged into light from the earth
Torn and ravaged by flames
Darkest of days
Seventy-six years
Of suffering their torturous ways
Oh the cruel and depraved
They laugh as they dance
Upon 20,000 graves
And I’m watching
And I’m waiting
And I’m watching
The world creeping in
Shameful accord across adjacent seas
Our craven hands bear the bloodied stain
Of the sin of our complacency
If there’s a hell, then we will burn the same
This errant road, we wander faithlessly
From sordid heights to a killer’s shame
We fall
Oh God willing
Lend the broken, the lost, the maimed
The strength to make it through the night
And let the ruin this place became
Be born anew beneath the morning light
And let their birthright be reclaimed
From hallowed heights to unholy flames
We fall
But God willing
We will see it all come down
We will see it all come down
We will see the end
We will see the end
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released February 2, 2024
• April Hutchins: Composition, lyrics, vocals, guitars, programming
• Colin MacAndrew: Composition, drums
• April Sada Solomon: Composition, bass
Bass and drums recorded and engineered by Mackay Agellon at Borkum Riff Studios.
Mixed and mastered by April Hutchins at Muffin Studios, located on the unceded lands of the Kanyen'kehà:ka & Anishinaabeg peoples – commonly known as Montréal, Canada.
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