Summer's Last Sound Lyrics

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Cover art for Summer's Last Sound lyrics by Disco Inferno

And the gulls are coming in off the coast The smell of corpses pulls them in, mass graves uncovered Must be abroad, it can't be here I can sense real violence, but I still don't understand How when the past looks dead and you've got the future in the palm of your hand...

Run quick through no-go streets, where killers hide While freaks get bricks in windows And foreigners get hushed-up trials And you're waiting for a knock at the door, Which should tell you if you'll spend the next few years Free from life attacked by petrol bombs The price of bread went up five pence today And an immigrant was kicked to death again

And I'm scared for my life for the first time in it And we've known all along that a home can put your life at risk So I guess we'll just disperse again...

And the crows are coming off the land The easy targets lull them in, force craws on Earth Don't be absurd, it can't be here Until we find a place to settle, we'll just keep moving on We stay in flocks like birds, no one dare to move alone Across a sea of great storms, chased by death in all its forms Over mountains, under suns We shoot to kill yet shoot for fun Across a desert's burning skies, we never stop to sleep and eat Death always finds us in the end Its very shadows ever weepy Over hot hamlets and plains A killer wants to see us slain Over thoughts of wheat and grain Through the endless pouring rain Why can we never find a safe place to land, When we find ourselves through God's providing hand?

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