Rez Band - Mission Bells lyrics

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From the still born cradle where the nations sleep

To the halls of meeting where the new gods meet

No one knows the reason why the shadows swell

But the distant ringing of the mission bells

There is no heaven and there is no hell

They still keep ringin' up the mission bells

Dead men have no tales to tell

But they still keep ringin' up the mission bells

The bland lead the bland in a pale new world

Where dreams of democracy are now unfurled

On the lips of infallicy a peace proclaimed

Breath of revolution without change

There is no heaven and there is no hell

They still keep ringin' up the mission bells

Dead men have no tales to tell

But they still keep ringin' up the mission bells

Hear the words of the prophets, see the men on stilts

As they bow to the effigies that they have built

Once faith was a virtue, now its use denied

And the bones bleach white under western skies

There is no heaven and there is no hell

They still keep ringin' up the mission bells

Dead men have no tales to tell

But they still keep ringin' up the mission bells

We were there the day the red god fell

But they still keep ringin' up the mission bells