Hard Songs

Some kind stranger grows my food
 Back bent hard in the harvest sun
 Red is the flag and red the mud
 Hard songs running in her blood
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 Some kind stranger picks my coffee
 Back bent deep in the forest heat
 Green is the flag and green the plant
 Cold seas running in his heart
 Some kind stranger sews my clothes
 Back bent low on the sweatshop row
 Black is the flag and the smoke of coal
 Mother's tears running in your soul
 Mother's tears running in your soul
 Cold seas running in your heart
 Hard songs running in your blood
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 Nimble fingers stitching pride
 Hunger rules the rich divide
 Red is the blood and black the hole
 Mother's tears running in your soul
 Mother's tears running in your soul
 Cold seas running in your heart
 Hard songs running in your blood
 Seabound sailor give us wings
 Nations end where peace begins
 Labours end and the soul departs
 Cold seas running in our hearts
 Mother's tears running in my soul
 Cold seas running in my heart
 Hard songs running in my blood