Bruce Cockburn Where The Death Squad Lives Lyrics

Where The Death Squad Lives Lyrics

Goons in blackface creeping in the road --

Farm family waiting for the
night to explode --

Working the land in an age of terror

You come
to see the moon as the bad news bearer

Down where the death squad lives




They cut down people like they cut down trees --

Chop off
its head so it will stay on its knees --

The forest shrinks but the earth
remains

Slash and burn and it grows again

Down where the death squad
lives. 



I've got friends trying to batter the system down

Fighting the past till the future comes round.

It'll never be a
perfect world till God declares it that way

But that don't mean there's
nothing we can do or say

Down where the death squad lives 



Like some kind of never-ending Easter passion,

From every agony a
hero's fashioned.

Around every evil there gathers love --

Bombs
aren't the only things that fall from above

Down where the dead squad
lives

down where the dead squad lives 



Sometimes I feel like
there's a padlock on my soul.

If you opened up my heart you'd find a big
black hole

But when the feeling comes through, it comes through strong
--

If you think there's no difference between right and wrong

Just
go down where the death squad lives 



This world can be better than
it is today

You can say I'm a dreamer but that's okay

Without the
could-be and the might-have-been

All you've got left is your fragile
skin

And that ain't worth much down where the death squad lives