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  • Song Lyrics » D » Dead Can Dance » Song of the Dispossessed Lyrics
    the river is deep and the road is long,
    daylight comes and I want to go home.

    awoke this morning
    to find my people's tongues were tied
    and in my dreams
    they were given books to poison their minds.

    the river is deep and the mountain high,
    how long before the other side.

    we are their mortar,
    their building bricks and their clay.
    their gold teeth mirror
    both our joys and our pain.

    the river is deep and the ocean wide,
    who will teach us how to read the signs.

    the earth is our mother
    she taught us to embrace the light,
    now the lord is master
    she suffers an eternal night.

    you blocked up my ears,
    you plucked out my eyes,
    you cut out my tongue,
    you fed me with lies,

    oh lord.

    {brendan perry}