Spoils Of Victory Lyrics - Arise - Amebix

Look to the north, look to the east, look to the west and south 

On all horizons storm clouds loom and roll across the sky 

The river bursts its banks and vomits soil into the mouth 

As thunder breaks the silence, a young child cries! 

Between the night and the days first light the leaders made a pact 

To raise the rotting corpse of war and set the wheels in motion 

The stage a heaving battlefield would support the final act 

While the authors hide in sattelites or forts beneath the ocean 

And in this play We're cast as fools 

To blindly play By others' rules 

Now the dust has settled and the stench completely clear 

Then return the victors to claim their wretched crown 

But from the fleshheaps of the slain, there comes no cheer 

Their game is over, the chips are down