Gammadion Seed - Skyclad

The Devil’s circus came to town

We watched the freaks arrive en masse

When they paraded through our streets

We turned a blind eye as they passed

Safe in the comfort of our homes

We all forget the need to fear

This is the new new Jerusalem

And it could never happen

Hear the cries as freedom dies

The gods of war have woken

A Catherine wheel of fire and steel

The death machine in motion

The Gammadion Seed

Draw the curtains, live in fear

The Gammadion Seed

Watch your neighbours disappear

The Gammadion Seed

If you’re too slow to realise

The Gammadion Seed

Then Gammadion will rise

Five years pass by, unnoticed change

Their glamour has us in it’s grasp

But now the walls have eyes and ears

Questions too dangerous to ask

New state-controlled TV and press

For reasons suddenly unclear

This is the European dream

So nothing bad can happen

Hear the cries as freedom dies

The gods of war have woken

A Catherine wheel of fire and steel

The death machine in motion

Now the first among equals are chosen at birth

Your outward appearance is all that you’re worth

They came for the black man and then for the Jew

They’ve done with the gypsies, all that leaves is you!

Behind the painted greasepaint smiles

Hide faces rarely known to grin

Men who will feed you to the lions

For having different thoughts or skin

And when we realise that we’ve made

A state to last a thousand years

Our pleas for help will not be heard

Because there’s no-one left to…

Hear the cries as freedom dies

The gods of war have woken

A Catherine wheel of fire and steel

The death machine in motion

The Gammadion Seed

Draw the curtains, live in fear

The Gammadion Seed

Watch your neighbours disappear

The Gammadion Seed

If you’re too slow to realise

The Gammadion Seed

Then Gammadion will rise