Borders swell like the oceans Nations swept away In the steel rain Wounds carved in the earth The silent hands of genocide They map the years Map the years Legacies of dust People remembered in nothing But fragments of language And verses of song And shards of military rust The gallows cold hands They tighten old rope, old rope Young men hang in the fetid breeze Like rotten fruit Too ripe for harvest And they have marched us Through the streets Heralded our death - our death Proclaimed our end And brought us to our knees - our knees A host of the willing few Gathered at the Traitors Gates Demanding their pound of flesh And their weight in gold The tyrant Resurrected as King Who's Midas touch An Iron Fist All the world is proclaiming Yesterday's man as Traitor Yet welcome with open arms His brother As tomorrow's Dictator