Em Am

They named us all redundancies
B7 Em

The new machines and cheaper lands
Em Am 

Shipped the plant over the seas
Am B7

They took the hammers from our hands 

The hospital where you were born 

Was losing funds, they sold a wing 

To pharmaceutical concerns 

And prisons solve all other things 

G Am 

And when the Horseman came again
D Em

Wrapped in linen shrouds of white
B7

Was he recognized by men?
B7 Em 

Or overtake us in the night? 

 

And when the virus set the spark

At first an ember then a blaze

It spread like butchers in the dark

Death scented on the smoky haze 

It stole the breath out of our blood

Like wildfire through them all-

The workshop, prison, and the camp 

While others stayed behind the wall

 

And when the Horseman came again, 

And lifted up the broken keen

Was is it Birkenau we heard, 

Or Kharkiv, or Skibereen? 

 

Take a walk along the wall 

Between the towers and the ruins 

We watched them rust, we watched them fall

The bloody sun, the iron moon

The banks are empty, morgues are full 

They’ll never let the market die 

Essential and expandable 

It is not ours to question why 

 

And when the Horseman comes again, 

What crown of arrows will he don? 

Will we have learned to bar the door, 

Or let the fires carry on?