Black Fields

From the window
A vision of your world looks surreal
In a blue and grey surround
I'm here in a corner
A picture on your screen
On the satellite beam
A bystander and I'm watching the ship going down
With the deadliest cargo inbound

Politicians
Their acts as grand and clean
Survey the scene
In a well-rehearsed alarm
Stand back from the shoreline
With a silver dollar smile
And you put us on fire
Leave an island to the curse of the spray and the spill
Worse things happen at sea and they will

And how many birds make a sacrifice
In the black fields?
How many wars till we pay the price
In the black fields?
I know disaster grows without looking twice
In the black fields

All hands to the video
Take a movie channel cruise
Anything but news
All cocooned, we climb the stairs
Back here in the black fields
We hide behind the trees
In a chemical breeze
Leave a call sign all the kings of the future will hear
Civilization was here

And how many birds make a sacrifice
In the black fields?
How many wars till we pay the price
In the black fields?
I know disaster grows without looking twice
In the black fields

To the world outside
There was nothing more to see
And the stony tide
And the demon keeps below the sea
And we cried and cried and cried

And how many birds make a sacrifice
In the black fields?
How many wars till we pay the price
In the black fields?
I know disaster grows without looking twice
In the black fields

From the window
A vision of your world looks surreal
In a blue and grey surround