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The Crossing Lyrics
I woke up screaming
But no one heard the drying river shining
To the breathing world (what was I dreaming of...)
And I missed all the gardens all the animals' footprints fresh in the rain
Now there is only the train the beast gives wait
Another master another day
In the borderlands
Cities forgotten
Borderlands crossing over me
So wipe the tears from your cheekbones
And the blood from your fingers
We are the ghosts in the theater of human rights
Just beyond their security lights
In the borderlands cities forgotten
Borderlands crossing over me
To the borderlands
Rivers and mountains
Borderlands
Crossing over me
(Crossed me)
This world is bigger than this
Bigger than lines drawn by governments
Illusions we're tracked by your eyes always watching
Just like the cameras twisting 'round this place
Out 24, 000 miles in space
Always so cold and so clear
But how do we get to the world from here?
Crash the system's hate from the factory floor to the white house gate
Crush the system's hate
From the maquiladora to the White House gate
To the borderlands cities forgotten (crossing over)
Borderlands
Crossing over me
To the borderlands
Rivers and mountains
Borderlands
Crossing over me
But no one heard the drying river shining
To the breathing world (what was I dreaming of...)
And I missed all the gardens all the animals' footprints fresh in the rain
Now there is only the train the beast gives wait
Another master another day
Cities forgotten
Borderlands crossing over me
And the blood from your fingers
We are the ghosts in the theater of human rights
Just beyond their security lights
Borderlands crossing over me
To the borderlands
Rivers and mountains
Borderlands
Crossing over me
Bigger than lines drawn by governments
Illusions we're tracked by your eyes always watching
Out 24, 000 miles in space
Always so cold and so clear
But how do we get to the world from here?
Crush the system's hate
From the maquiladora to the White House gate
Borderlands
Crossing over me
Rivers and mountains
Borderlands
Crossing over me
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Quoting Thomas Barnett:
Inspired by all the different people trying to get somewhere where they can eat food and have a family. It's ... about this Central American and Mexican movement of people to move back north to have a piece of this world. It references "The Beast" in the second verse, which is the name of the train that people would jump on and hope that they survive it to get across the border. To get somewhere where there's not political executions that are often orchestrated by these middle-men groups so that our corporations can have a very fertile and flexible footing and cheap labor in these countries that these people call home. So, it's about immigration and human rights.