Song of the Dispossessed

Dead Can Dance

The river is deep and the road is longDaylight comes and I want to go homeAwoke this morningTo find my people's tongues were tiedAnd in my dreamsThey were given books to poison their mindsThe river is deep and the mountain highHow long before the other sideWe are their mortarTheir building bricks and their clayTheir gold teeth mirrorBoth our joys and our painThe river is deep and the ocean wideWho will teach us how to read the signsThe earth is our motherShe taught us to embrace the lightNow the lord is masterShe suffers an eternal nightYou blocked up my earsYou plucked out my eyesYou cut out my tongueYou fed me with liesOh lordOh lordOh lordOh lord