from the haunts of daily life
where is waged the daily strife
common wants and common cares
cuts the human heart with tears | | rise like lions after a slumber
in greatly unknowable numbers |
let the tyrants pour around
with apocalyptic sound
on the charge of iron wheels
and the crash of horse's heels | | rise like lions after a slumber
in greatly unknowable numbers
free the blood that must ensue
we are many and they are few |
from the workhouse and the prison
pale as corpses newly risen
knives are drawn now let them see
standing tall that say they're free | | your strong and simple words
set to wound as sharpened swords
wide as targets let them be
with their shade to cover me |
rise like lions after a slumber
in greatly unknowable numbers
free the blood that must ensue
we are many and they are few |
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