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The Ballad Of The Red Flame Lily

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The Ballad Of The Red Flame Lily

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On this day

All the trees in Rhodesia are aflame

As the eyes of the quivering flowers

Of aching replete

And the lions

Overflowing with vengeance for the pines

Not occupation but a sentence, and in time

We'll all be faking retreat

Have you got rid of it yet?

Is faith corroded with neglect?

Can we ever hide hurt?

At least at night the harvest Sun's yoke

Is rising like the rebel smoke

Beyond the oceans and swirls

And it will shame us now

And it will shame us still

And it will shame us now

And it will shame us still

What a hollow promise

From hollow men

What a shallow grave

For shallow men

You're the bull that paws the earth

The leopard that teaches to run

You're the crocodile that eats the Sun

So we walk on

(So we walk on)

Through and beyond

(So we walk on the failures of men)

The failures of men

(The failures of men)

And we walk

(There's a void)

There's a void at the center

(At the center)

Of everything

And it will shame us now

And it will shame us still

And it will shame us now

And it will shame us still

And it will shame us now

And it will shame us still

(It was wrong)

And it will shame us now

And it will shame us still

(I was wrong)

And it will shame us now

And it will shame us still

(It was wrong)

And it will shame us now

And it will shame us still

(I was wrong)

And it will shame us now

(It was wrong)

And it will shame us still

(I was wrong)

And it will shame us now

(It was wrong)

And it will shame us still

(I was wrong)

And it will shame us now

(I was wrong come here)

And it will shame us still

(I was wrong come here)

And it will shame us now

(I was wrong come here)

And it will shame us still

(I was wrong come here)

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