Primal Scream - Deep Dark Waters Lyrics

Primal Scream - Deep Dark Waters Lyrics 

Echoes from the past

Day by day reminders

We swore "they shall not pass"

I fear the worst shall surely find us

The future is set and spent

In the dark enlightenment

The "people they have spoken"

The serpent's egg cracked open

Bodies washed up on the beach

Children drowning out of reach

Hear the children cry

This ship is sailing

Into deep dark waters

All systems are failing

We go like cattle to the slaughter

To the slaughter...

Shadows from the past

Cancelling the future

We thought we'd seen the last

Of the Euro high class butchers

The fate of mice and men

We're sleepwalking again

Into a mess of our own making

The barriers are shaking

This time in business suits

Not in helmets or jackboots

Pull the trees out by the roots

And shake the ground with thunder

This ship is sailing

Into deep dark waters

All systems are failing

We go like cattle to the slaughter

To the slaughter...

Our fortress continent

Our values ​​are torn and bent

We bomb and when they run

We tell them they can't come

Just like in World War Two

We showed no pity on the Jews

We shared them as well

Abandoned them to hell

"They're not welcome here"

"Send them all back there"

Where is the enlightenment?

Our crime, their punishment

Our fortress continent

Built on Colonial theft

Our European mess...

This ship is sailing

Into deep dark waters

All systems are failing

We go like cattle to the slaughter

To the slaughter...

Gangsters in uniform

Praying for the coming storm

Judeo-Christian soldiers

Waiting for the orders

To storm the citadels

Fight the infidels

Make a martyr of your son

Teach him how to shoot a gun

Pack his schoolbag with a bomb

And keep praying to your God

Because God is on your side

Will your life be sacrificed

To an old man in the sky?

But to meet him you must die

This ship is sailing

Into deep dark waters

Wise men are bailing

We go like cattle to the slaughter

To the slaughter...