Echoes from the past
Day by day reminders
We swore “they shall not pass”
I fear the worst shall surely find us

The future bent and spent
In dark enlightenment
The “people they have spoken”
The serpents 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 barricades 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 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 othered them as well
Abandoned them to hell
We say ‘they're not welcome here”
“send them all back there'
Where's the enlightenment
In 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
Insurgents 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…