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