There's a government whip cracked across your back   Where the order of the day is don't listen, attack   See the blood run down in your bushwhack town   Revolution is the gimmick of a joke less clown   Where the body's just yelling for the tax man's gun      Talk, don't talk if you've nothing to say   Walk, don't walk if your feet don't know the way      And requiem for a dying song   With a shimmy and a shank from a futile war   With the sun that lights the day   Breaks the darkness and the powers of another great shame      With you my love, with you my love   With you I will return   And requiem for a dying song      Got the barrel by the face should the order release   Should the bullet in your pocket turn away and retreat   See the terror in the eye of a bloodshot child   Only bubble in his belly and the promise of lies   Operation, liberation, tell me, you can decide      Oh, talk, don't talk if you've nothing to say   Walk, don't walk if your feet don't know the way      Requiem for a dying song   With a shimmy and the shank from a futile war   With the sun that lights the day   Breaks the darkness and the powers of another great shame      But with you my love, with you my love   With you I will return   And requiem for a dying song      Agony from every corner on every street   Act like he lost himself over bitterness   Explode, explode      There's a government whip cracked across your back   Where the order of the day is don't listen, attack      Oh, talk, don't talk if you've nothing to say   Walk, don't walk if your feet don't know the way      Requiem for a dying song   With a shimmy and the shank from a futile war   With the sun that lights the day   Breaks the darkness and the powers of another great shame      But with you my love, with you my love   With you I will return   And requiem for a dying song      With you my love   With you I will return   And requiem for a dying song