Black Fields

[Verse 1]
From a window, a vision of your world
Looks surreal in a blue and grey surround
I'm here in a corner, a picture on your screen
I'm a satellite beam, a bystander
And I'm watching the ship going down
With the deadliest cargo inbound

[Verse 2]
Politicians, their axes ground and clean
Survey the scene in a well-rehearsed alarm
Stand back from the shoreline with a silver dollar smile
And you put us on file, leave an island
To the curse of the spray and the spill
Worse things happen at sea and they will

[Chorus]
And how many birds make a sacrifice in the black fields
How many wars 'til we pay the price in the black fields
I know disaster grows without looking twice in the black fields

[Verse 3]
All hands to the video, take a movie channel cruise
Anything but news, all cocooned we climb the stairs
Back here in the black fields, we hide behind the trees
In a chemical breeze, leave a call sign
All the kings of the future will hear
Civilization was here

[Chorus]
And how many birds make a sacrifice in the black fields
How many wars 'til we pay the price in the black fields
I know disaster grows without looking twice in the black fields

[Bridge]
To the world outside
There was nothing more to see
And the story died
And the demon keeps below the sea
And we cried and cried and cried

[Instrumental]

[Chorus]
And how many birds make a sacrifice in the black fields
How many wars 'til we pay the price in the black fields
I know disaster grows without looking twice in the black fields

[Outro]
From a window, a vision of your world
Looks surreal in a blue and grey surround