Night falls like the silence over Sudan   Where children run like the blood on the sand   And I can taste it like the dust that chokes this land   A government sponsored slavery plan   Lined up like cattle at an auction deprived   Of everything that you and I have ever known   All alone, wearing only the dreams of their far away home   Back to the market   Of endless profit   Impoverished in famine, set me free   A never ending cycle of slavery   A cowardly silence plagues our land, where children are stolen from the Dinka clan   And I can taste smokescreen that chokes this land   A government sponsored slavery plan   Branded like cattle at an auction deprived   Of everything that you and I've ever known   All alone, wearing only the dreams of their far away home   I just want to close my eyes   I don't want to agonize   Over people I don't know   I was asleep until you woke me up   And now I see thee faces   Of these kids in foreign places   When I close my eyes