Blood and Fire

 Silver hands, chemical hearts
 Too much blood they've slipped apart
 The martyr hears his family cry
 Too much glory's burned their eyes
 Emeralds are green and blood is red
 So many years, so many deaths
 Rubber bullets flying fast
 Another slave is freed at last
 Handsome flowers mark the place
 Where the soldier lost his pretty face
 Rain that makes the fuchsias grow
 Blood rain makes the headstones grow
 Burning tires, smoking glow
 Down where the river of bodies flow
 North to south through every town
 South to north blood soaked the ground
 Have a beer for the kid who died
 Says his mother welling up with pride
 Ditch the car and feel the blast
 Burning higher than the last
 Hair as red as blood and fire
 Go tell your god that he's a liar