Dinkas When I Close My Eyes

Night falls like the silence over Sudan
 Where children run like the blood on the sand
 And I can taste it like the dust that chokes this land
 A government sponsored slavery plan
 Lined up like cattle at an auction deprived
 Of everything that you and I have ever known
 All alone, wearing only the dreams of their far away home
 Back to the market
 Of endless profit
 Impoverished in famine, set me free
 A never ending cycle of slavery
 A cowardly silence plagues our land, where children are stolen from the Dinka clan
 And I can taste smokescreen that chokes this land
 A government sponsored slavery plan
 Branded like cattle at an auction deprived
 Of everything that you and I've ever known
 All alone, wearing only the dreams of their far away home
 I just want to close my eyes
 I don't want to agonize
 Over people I don't know
 I was asleep until you woke me up
 And now I see thee faces
 Of these kids in foreign places
 When I close my eyes