Run they said to a promised land 

Run and find us a helping hand 

Don't come back till the sun is gone 

Don't come back till the war is won 

We all set out with our hearts in hand 

A cold wind covered up a line in the sand 

All so young 

Nothing to lose 

Pieces of silver and a dead mans shoes 

And oh do you know what I'm saying 

Strike a light to guide us 

Somewhere 

Tempest swells our worlds collide 

Arrows from above and the salt in our eyes 

Then as the sky began to bruise 

We all sought shelter from the breaking news 

Oh did I ever show you 

All the great memorials, all the factory floors 

And oh though you know I don't know you 

Now that were here 

Let's make them proud 

On and on and on and on and on and on we go 

Traipsing over bridges 

Over corpses down below 

And all the while we could have smiled 

For one thing on our minds 

The very thing you strive for 

Is the thing that makes you blind 

Run they said to a promised land 

Run and find us a helping hand 

Don't come back till the sun is gone 

Don't come back till the war is won 

Tempest high, stories tall 

Thought that we learnt nothing at all 

Then at last the day was saved 

With flowers borrowed from a dead friends grave 

And oh even still I don't know you 

Maybe I'll show you 

If you've eyes to see 

And so farewell 

And so farewell 

And so farewell 

And so farewell to it