When we've build a world on nothing
Without rucks or law or grain
Thats when the devil comes on horseback
Flying steel without a name

After our lives and families settle
And tired feet find ground to stay
Thats when the voiceless hearts are silenced
The trail of bodies fades away

The cradle rocks without a sound
No sign of help can be found
The lens is painted blood-red
There's no fight left to see
Death rides in and she's coming for me
The cradle rocks without a sound
The bodies fade away

Find a place to tear it down
Tattered remnants to build a house
Give us debt and sick and shame
Take our teeth our lives our name

Too few drugs to numb the sickness
And our whole world reeks with pain
Take what we have to get high now
It was better before they came

Today the river bed is running
They suck our blood through the ground
There's not a voice that isn't screaming
And pretty soon there's no more sound

And when we've built the world on nothing
Without rucks or law or grain
Thats when the devil comes on horseback
The trail of bodies fades away