Pale Horse Lyrics - John Vanderslice

From the haunts of daily life 

Where is waged the daily strife 

Common wants and common cares 

Cuts the human heart with tears 

Rise like lions after a slumberin' 

In greatly unknowable numbers 

Let the tyrants pour around 

With apocalyptic sound 

On the charge of iron wheels 

And the crash of horses heels 

Rise like lions after a slumberin' 

In greatly unknowable numbers 

Free the blood that must ensue 

We are many and they are few 

From the workhouse and the prison 

Pale as corpses newly risen 

Knives are drawn now let them see 

Standing tall that say they're free 

Your strong and simple words 

Set to wound as sharpened swords 

Wide as targets let them be 

With their shade to cover me 

Rise like lions after a slumberin' 

In greatly unknowable numbers 

Free the blood that must ensue 

We are many and they are few