Bruce Cockburn Grim Travellers Lyrics

Grim Travellers Lyrics

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 



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 



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 



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