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