Empire Sundown

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Look them in the eyes When they push you off the raft And make them watch you drown [Verse 2] They take everything But they can't tell us how to defend ourselves The tide is gonna turn And when it does And what can we do When they come for all the ones we couldn't save We owe them the empire's reddest sundown And when it's dark our time will come [Verse 3] They, they don't care what they do to us, my friend Our tears are wine to them All we've ever been is grist for the mill that keeps turning One day their stones will break And watch when they do (God have mercy) And what will we do to remind them That they can't live without us They need us It's their turn to try and shout back an unrelenting tide