Grim Travellers

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Ministers meet -- work on the movement of goods
 Also work on the movement of capital
 Also work on the movement of human beings
 As if we were so many cattle
 Grim travellers in dawn skies
 See the beauty -- makes you cry inside
 Makes you angry and you don't know why
 Grim travellers in dawn skies
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 Twelve mercenaries got weapons primed
 Gonna take that African nation in record time
 You wonder why they bother, why not leave it alone
 They say, 'Every man wants to retire to a place he can call his own'
 Those grim travellers in dawn skies
 See the beauty -- makes them cry inside
 Makes them angry and they don't know why
 Grim travellers in dawn skies
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 Redness, richer than a rose
 Blooms against the backdrop of somebody's white clothes
 Bitter little girls and boys from the Red Army Underground
 They'd blow away Karl Marx if he had the nerve to come around
 They're just grim travellers in dawn skies
 See the beauty -- makes them cry inside
 Makes them angry and they don't know why
 They're grim travellers in dawn skies
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 Down on the plain of 10, 000 smokestacks
 Trucks butt each other to establish dominance
 The newspaper next to me leans over and says matter-of-factly
 'Sacred mountains towers above meadows' - uh huh - and above us
 Grim travellers in dawn skies
 I see the beauty -- makes me cry inside
 It makes me angry and I don't know why
 We're grim travellers in dawn skies
 

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Duration
04:49
Tempo
149 BPM

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