Sit down and bargain   All you like grizzled old foxes   We'll wall you up in a splendid palace   With food, wine, good beds and a good fire   Provided that you discuss, negotiate   For our and your children's lives   May all the wisedom of the universe   Converge to bless your minds   And guide you in the maze   But outside in the cold we will be waiting for you   The army of those who died in vain   We of the Marne, of Montecassino   Treblinka, Dresden and Hiroshima   And with us will be   The leprous and the people with trachoma   The disappeared ones of Buenos Aires   Dead Cambodians and dying Ethiopians   The Prague negotiatiors   The bled dry of Calcutta   The innocents slaughtered in Bologna   Heaven help you if you come out disagreeing   You'll be clutched tight in our embrace   We are invincible because we are the conquered   Invulnerable because already dead   We laugh at your missiles   Sit down and bargain   Until your tongues are dry   If the havoc and the shame continue   We'll drown you in our putrefaction