Was He Ever Alive?

When I die let me down

In the field in the ground

Where the water runs beneath me

And the sky's red and falling down

Round my eyes that I closed

And the world that I know

Is a shadow of a dream

That left me in my loneliness

Without a life behind me

That I can say I ever knew

That I can say I ever knew

That I can say I ever lived at all

Now I'm a drunken man

And I'm killing time

From what was mislaid

I've never been alive

I was never born in blood

I've never breathed a word

And the people that I knew

The women and the thieves

They left my body bleeding

On this piece of fallow ground

They left my body bleeding

On this piece of closing in

They left my body bleeding

On this piece of emptiness

They left my body bleeding

On this piece of fallow ground

Where famine comes before me

And cuts my people down

Where the brown cloud shuts the sun

And locusts eat our food

And the blood of lamb is spilled

And smeared across the altar

And the colors red and gold

Put their flavor in our soul

And the children are born blind

And the water turns to blood

And we're sheltered by our god

Who's hand is strong and bloody

And we're walking earth that's filled

With the bodies that he's killed

To get our people free

To get our people out

To get our people free

To get our people out

He'll drown em in black waters

He'll send a swarm of flies

Yeah, he'll slaughter those that kill us

And he'll punish them that hide

Where was it decided?

Where was it described

That a man he gets no substance

That as he lays there as he dies

He ceases to believe

He was ever born in blood

That his eyes have ever seen

That his hands have ever held

That his lungs have ever breathed

That he's ever been alive

Was he ever alive?

Was he ever alive?

Was he ever alive?

Was he ever alive?