[Refrain]
An alchemy
Human alchemy
[Verse 1]
We stole them from their
Freedom to be sold
To turn their skins of black
Into the skins of brightest gold
[Refrain]
An alchemy
Human alchemy
[Verse 2]
We stoked the fires of trade
With human coals
And made our purses
From the flailed skins of purest souls
[Refrain]
An alchemy
Human alchemy
[Bridge]
Other lands became a larder full of all the good things
All we had to do was go and take
Blood, the color of the rain that grew our wicked harvest
Black, the color icing on our cake
[Refrain]
An alchemy
Human alchemy
[Bridge]
Other lands became a larder full of all the good things
All we had to do was go and take
Blood, the color of the rain that grew our wicked harvest
Black, the color icing on our cake
[Verse 3]
We stole their babes and mothers
Chiefs and braves
Although we held the whip
You know we were the real slaves
[Outro]
To alchemy
Human alchemy
Alchemy
Human alchemy
An alchemy
Human alchemy
Alchemy
Human alchemy
Alchemy
Human alchemy
Human, human alchemy