Crushed (Hostile Nations)

Ah, the morning rose

The Sun exposed

The hell that was the day

As our ship struck ground

With a mighty sound

We were crushed like lifeless souls

And our hearts, they sank

With each wave they crashed

Another life to mourn

For the new black flag

Is the same old flag

We've all seen raised before

In the middle of hope and glory

To the fields of love and hate

There's a boy with his toy soldiers

Playing war in a boyish way

Hear the message, pay the piper

To a land where all is safe

Cross the bridge without a border

Lost forever, somehow we were

Crushed, crushed

Seven long days is a lifetime

We were (hushed, hushed)

Under the black flag, same as the old flag

Livin' in a world full of hostile nations

John he wrote in the beginning

But the word was not the word

I can claim to be the father

Just the son of a human birth

Kill the septic, build a lifeline

Kiss the face of the lost and lonely

Locking arms around the factory

Breaking bones is all we are now

Crushed, crushed

Seven long days is a lifetime

We were (hushed, hushed)

Under the black flag, same as the old flag

Livin' in a world full of hostile nations

Livin' in a world

Livin' in a world full of hostile

Livin' in a world

Livin' in a world full of hostile

Livin' in a world

Livin' in a world full of hostile nations

Oh my God, what have we done here?

Oh my God, are you still real?

Oh my God, your cross looks broken

Like the face in your imagery

Hear the message, pay the piper

To the land where all is safe

Where the devils and the angels

Sing together on and we were

Crushed, crushed

Seven long days is a lifetime

We were (hushed, hushed)

Under the black flag, same as the old flag

Livin' in a world full of hostile nations

Crushed, crushed

Seven long days is a lifetime

We were (hushed, hushed)

Under the black flag, same as the old flag

Livin' in a world full of hostile nations

Livin' in a world

Livin' in a world full of hostile nations