There´s a government whip cracked across your back
Where the honor of the day is don´t listen, attack
See the blood run down in your bushwhack town
Revolution is the gimmick of the joke less clown
Where the body´s just yelling for the tax man´s gun

Talk don´t talk if you´ve nothing to say
Walk don´t walk if your feet don´t know the way

And requiem for a dying song
with a shimmy and a shank from a futile war
And the sun that lights the day
breaks the darkness and the powers of another great shame

With you my love, with you my love
with you I will return
And requiem for a dying song

Got a barrel by the face should the order release
Should the bullet in your pocket turn away and retreat
See the terror in the eye of a bloodshot child
Only bubble in his belly and the promise of lies
Operation, liberation, tell me, you can decide

Talk don´t talk if you´ve nothing to say
Walk don´t walk if your feet don´t know the way

And requiem for a dying song
with a shimmy and the shank from a futile war
And the sun that lights the day
breaks the darkness and the powers of another great shame

But with you my love, with you my love
with you I will return
And requiem for a dying song

Agony on the corner of every street
Then he lost himself over bitterness, explode
Explode

There´s a government whip cracked across your back
Where the honor of the day is don´t listen, attack

Talk don´t talk if you´ve nothing to say
Walk don´t walk if your feet don´t know the way

And requiem for a dying song
with a shimmy and the shank from a futile war
And the sun that lights the day
breaks the darkness and the powers of another great shame

But with you my love, with you my love
with you I will return
And requiem for a dying song
With you my love
with you I will return
And requiem for a dying song