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