Was He Ever Alive?

Lyrics

When I die let me down In the field in the ground Where the water runs beneath me And the sky's red and falling down Round my eyes that I closed And the world that I know Is a shadow of a dream That left me in my loneliness Without a life behind me That I can say I ever knew That I can say I ever knew That I can say I ever lived at all Now I'm a drunken man And I'm killing time From what was mislaid I've never been alive I was never born in blood I've never breathed a word And the people that I knew The women and the thieves They left my body bleeding On this piece of fallow ground They left my body bleeding On this piece of closing in They left my body bleeding On this piece of emptiness They left my body bleeding On this piece of fallow ground Where famine comes before me And cuts my people down Where the brown cloud shuts the sun And locusts eat our food And the blood of lamb is spilled And smeared across the altar And the colors red and gold Put their flavor in our soul And the children are born blind And the water turns to blood And we're sheltered by our god Who's hand is strong and bloody And we're walking earth that's filled With the bodies that he's killed To get our people free To get our people out To get our people free To get our people out He'll drown em in black waters He'll send a swarm of flies Yeah, he'll slaughter those that kill us And he'll punish them that hide Where was it decided? Where was it described That a man he gets no substance That as he lays there as he dies He ceases to believe He was ever born in blood That his eyes have ever seen That his hands have ever held That his lungs have ever breathed That he's ever been alive Was he ever alive? Was he ever alive? Was he ever alive? Was he ever alive?