[00:08.80]
[00:10.80]Our history speaks in thunder
[00:12.37]From a thousand village halls
[00:14.87]In blood and sweat and sacrifice
[00:16.05]In honouring every call
[00:17.55]So the forces gathered against
[00:19.18]The thorn a-piercing in their side
[00:21.24]A brave new world is beckoning
[00:22.98]So the olden world must die
[00:26.74]
[00:38.42]In the offices of the city
[00:39.99]At all the tables of oak and power
[00:42.05]The snares are laid and baited
[00:43.49]For the approaching of the hour
[00:45.49]A hundred justifications
[00:46.87]And the presses are ready to roll
[00:48.80]The gateways to the nation
[00:50.36]They are firmly under control
[00:52.54]On  on  on  cried the leaders at the back
[00:55.55]We went galloping down the blackened hills
[00:57.61]And into the gaping trap
[00:59.11]The bridges are burnt behind us
[01:00.92]And there's waiting guns ahead
[01:02.55]Into the valley of death rode the brave hundreds
[01:08.17]
[01:19.74]Oh well we called for some assistance
[01:21.61]From the friends that we had known
[01:23.55]But this is the 1980s and we were on our own
[01:26.98]We never felt like heroes or martyrs to a cause
[01:30.48]Just battle-weary soldiers in a bloody civil war
[01:33.98]On  on  on  cried the leaders at the back
[01:37.24]We went galloping down the blackened hills
[01:39.42]And into the gaping trap
[01:40.80]The bridges are burnt behind us
[01:42.55]And there's waiting guns ahead
[01:44.52]Into the valley of death rode the brave hundreds
[01:49.96]
[02:05.07]The massacre now is over
[02:06.50]And the order new enshrined
[02:08.38]While a quarter of the nation
[02:10.00]Are abandoned far behind
[02:12.00]Their leaders offer the clich words
[02:13.75]So righteous in defeat
[02:15.44]But no one needs morality
[02:17.00]When there isn't enough to eat
[02:18.94]The unity bond is broken
[02:20.37]And the loyalty songs are fake
[02:22.31]I'll screw my only brother
[02:23.75]For even a glimpse at a piece of the cake
[02:25.88]We only cry in private here
[02:27.69]Behind the shuttered glass
[02:29.13]When we think of the charge of this brigade
[02:31.13]The severing of the past
[02:33.19]On  on  on  cried the leaders at the back
[02:35.87]We went galloping down the blackened hills
[02:37.87]And into the gaping trap
[02:39.43]The bridges are burnt behind us
[02:41.13]And there's waiting guns ahead
[02:43.00]Into the valley of death rode the brave hundreds
[02:47.50]On  on  on  cried the leaders at the back
[02:49.81]We went galloping down the blackened hills
[02:51.69]And into the gaping trap
[02:53.25]The bridges are burnt behind us
[02:55.06]And there's waiting guns ahead
[02:56.88]Into the valley of death rode the brave hundreds
[03:01.06]On  on  on  cried the leaders at the back
[03:03.75]We went galloping down the blackened hills
[03:05.69]And into the gaping trap
[03:07.25]The bridges are burnt behind us
[03:08.87]And there's waiting guns ahead
[03:10.62]Into the valley of death rode the brave hundreds