Hot Gates

London, Paris, Rome, Berlin
Barcelona, Washington
Moscow, Beijing, Tokyo
Jerusalem, Jericho

Waco, wake oh, Bethlehem
Srebrenica, Sebokeng
Sarajevo, oh Saigon
Hiroshima, Rubicon

I can see a fiery, fiery glow
Even as the sun is sinking low
I can see a horseman on the run
Oh my daughter, oh my son

Dunkirk, Dover, Normandy
Frankfurt, New York
Lockerbie
Amajuba, Bellevue
Chappaquiddick
Waterloo

Bucharest, St Petersburg
Heilbron, Hobhouse
Gettysburg
Belfast, Budapest, Baghdad
Berchtesgaden
Stalingrad

I can see a fiery, fiery glow
Even as the sun is sinking low
I can see a horseman on the run
Oh my daughter, oh my son

Carthage, Dresden, Babylon
Sharpeville, My Lai
Boipatong
Delville, Wood El, Alamein
St Helena
Mitchell’s Plain

Balaklava, Austerlitz
Belsen, Buchenwald, Auschwitz
Nagasaki, oh Versailles
Armageddon
Thermopylae

I can see a fiery, fiery glow
Even as the sun is sinking low
I can see a horseman on the run
Oh my daughter, oh my son

There’s another song that will be sung
There’s another bell that must be rung
There’s another city, I’ve been told
Where the streets are paved with gold

There’s another city, I’ve been told
Where the streets are paved with gold