Red Gold (Rock Song)

By well-wisher

Thu, 17 Apr 2014
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1st.

One day they found a way

to make petrol out of blood

and, on that day, the grey

streets were stained by scarlet flood.

 

2nd .

 

The soldiers came, they said,

to free us from our chains

but they were after the red

petrol in our veins.

 

Chorus:

 

They’re vampires, yeah.

Marching onto our soil

Not for democracy;

Just spilling blood for oil.

 

They’re vampires, yeah.

Don’t buy the lies you’re told.

Not trying to set us free.

Just after our red gold.

 

3rd.

 

They herded us on trucks

to an unknown location.

In my arm, a needle, stuck

‘cause it was a filling station.

 

4th.

 

Now so weak and pale, I’ve turned

‘cause they’ve got big cars to run

but I know one day they'll burn

and I'm waiting for that rising sun.

 

Chorus:

 

They’re vampires, yeah.

Marching onto our soil

Not for democracy;

Just spilling blood for oil.

 

They’re vampires, yeah.

Don’t buy the lies you’re told.

Not trying to set us free.

Just after our red gold.

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Comments

Submitted by hudsonmoon on

Pretty scary stuff, well-wisher. And scary because it's pretty close to the truth.

Rich

 

Submitted by Ray Schaufeld on

Imaginatively real               Elsie

Submitted by well-wisher on

Thank you, Elsie.

Oh look, a link. I wonder where it leads.

JoHn

Submitted by well-wisher on

Thanks, Hudson. It was inspired by the crisis in the Ukraine which is all about who controls Ukranian oil but is being dressed up as a fight between imperialism and democracy. Not to mention, a lot of the Ukranian Nationalists seem to be Nazi's and therefore no better than the  Russians.

 

Oh look, a link. I wonder where it leads.

JoHn