Lyrics

BLOODLANDS

It was always you

I watched a man fall and die burning
In the light of a pitiless sun
Car radio playing Led Zeppelin
Enter the dragon

That fish twisting for air
You brought a rock down on its head
A yacht, a pharmaceutical heir
The scorpion on my bed

It couldn’t last
It couldn’t last

Blood on your hands
These were our blood lands
Bloodlands
Bloodlands
Bloodlands
Bloodlands

Highway a river of methadone
Tears on my iced Coke
The way the light caught your cheekbone
You said, if it ain’t broke

It couldn’t last
It couldn’t last

I lay in the red dust
Immortal, with a halo made of broken glass
You were all that was left of me, of us
The unforgivable had come to pass

Blood on your hands
These were our blood lands
Bloodlands
Bloodlands
Bloodlands
Bloodlands

Blood on your hands
These were our blood lands
Bloodlands
Bloodlands
Bloodlands
Bloodlands

Oh, man of war
Man of hate
Oh, man of desecration

Blood on your hands
Blood on your hands
Blood on your hands

Blood on your - blood on your hands

Copyright Antonella Gambotto-Burke