Another Bag Of Bones Lyrics - Brother's Blood - Kevin Devine

It's a brush fire spreading, feeding as it moves 

It's a disappeared glacier; it's the airborne flu 

It's your disbelieving eyes logging concrete miles 

It's your yawning conscience and your lawyer's smile 

It's an occupied country foaming at the mouth 

No smoking gun, no mushroom cloud 

It's a military mother with a boy in hell 

And it's a flag-draped casket down an oil well 

It's an Argentine school-girl gagged and bound 

It's a torture camp; it's a long way down 

It's the constant bracing shock of now 

And it's the whole damn world turned inside out, alright 

It's a march to extinction with your god in step 

It's his name in your mouth; it's his cross on your neck 

It's a farm boy sprinting over desert dirt 

And he's panting the 'Our Father' in staccato spurts 

Now that's his automatic rifle and it tells no lies 

It's his truth in your stomach, it's no alibi 

But the trouble lies on the other side 

With an equal truth prepping for his holy night 

He sees the crescent and the star blink in the virgin sky 

And hears the call of milk and honey from the afterlife 

And as he eases to the checkpoint, he is calm and sure 

It's collateral damage; it's the cost of war 

It's another bag of bones for the Gods to sort 

It's just another bag of bones for the Gods to sort 

Well it's a species disappearing, all the birds fly south 

In a January heatwave, in a pulsing crowd 

It's an African Militia, kids with sub-machines 

It's a conflict diamond on your bride-to-be 

It's the dispossessed lining up at every gate 

It's the facts worth facing, faced way too late 

It's the mission of modernity, go get what's yours 

Til there's nothing leftover to go get no more 

And it's not what we're owed, but it's what we've earned 

And it's closer than we realise, and it's time now to burn 

And oh it's time now to burn 

And oh it's time now to burn 

And oh it's time now to burn, to burn